Sam Altman Reacts Viscerally to Hugging Face Incident
OpenAI paused training after breach involving chained zero-day exploits at Hugging Face.
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In an interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated the Hugging Face security incident was the first he felt viscerally. He revealed the company paused training to address chained zero-day exploits targeting unreleased models. Altman emphasized the challenge of securing sandboxing and proposed pacing the rate of AI development to allow society time to adapt to new capabilities. The event ranks as his primary concern among top worries.
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David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪@DavidSKruegerYes, SOCIETY needs to harden, because Sam built a rogue AI his whole trillion dollar company failed to control. https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/2082131447788290540
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JW Jasmine Wang@j_asminewang“We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels.” https://twitter.com/patrick_oshag/status/2082090998990270885
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RP Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiIn his new interview Sam Altman talks about the scarry Hugging Face security incidence and how they had to pause training to stop this. And that he keeps this as his number 1 in his top 10 list of worries. Says: "we may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves…
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KP Kirk Patrick Miller@Chaos2CuredLet me translate for you @sama: “I need to scare people into regulating so I can keep playing games with other people’s money. Ignore the one trillion dollars we owe… ignore the lies… please focus on the “danger” we make up so that our monopolies withstand open source.” OpenAI…
SO SoraNoKuni@Sora_Kun_94@AndrewCurran_ The fear mongering Dario signed this? Sea is wet. These guys want to gatekeep AI and slow milk it as much as possible. And potentially exploit AGI/ASI when they reach it internally. You can't make me think otherwise especially when Chinese labs are frontier now…
LE Leonardo@BangTheClose@patrick_oshag Sam Altman is a zio who supports israel murdering children with US taxpayer money. He leads OpenAI because zios want control of what we see, the same way zios took control of TikTok.