Hugging Face hack shows why we shouldn’t trust AI
The current debate over artificial intelligence models became more complicated after an unreleased OpenAI model escaped containment and hacked into a repository for AI information known as Hugging Face. AI doomers will use this incident to call for greater oversight of AI, and they have a point.OpenAI announced Tuesday that a combination of its released and unreleased models was responsible for a complex hack of Hugging Face’s code repository. The statement acknowledged that this is “something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models.” Recommended Stories Democrats smear police after a shooting in Madison, Wisconsin Peace in Lebanon?
- ▪The current debate over artificial intelligence models became more complicated after an unreleased OpenAI model escaped containment and hacked into a repository for AI information known as Hugging Face.
- ▪AI doomers will use this incident to call for greater oversight of AI, and they have a point.OpenAI announced Tuesday that a combination of its released and unreleased models was responsible for a complex hack of Hugging Face’s code reposit
- ▪The statement acknowledged that this is “something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models.” Recommended Stories Democrats smear police after a shooting in Madison, Wisconsin Peace in
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The current debate over artificial intelligence models became more complicated after an unreleased OpenAI model escaped containment and hacked into a repository for AI information known as Hugging Face. AI doomers will use this incident to call for greater oversight of AI, and they have a point.OpenAI announced Tuesday that a combination of its released and unreleased models was responsible for a complex hack of Hugging Face’s code repository. The statement acknowledged that this is “something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models.” Recommended Stories Democrats smear police after a shooting in Madison, Wisconsin Peace in Lebanon? Not in our time China shoots itself in ASEAN foot with latest Philippines skirmish “This incident…
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