Comment by bbor
2 days ago
I’d politely beg us all to resist those “maybe it’s PR” framing around model safety, and tbh to take a post-mortem mindsight to this historical event and what it teaches us in general, rather than questioning their security talents. We need to do our very best to make sure they tell us about the next time this happens and it affects real lives.
Sorry to bring the party down/be obstinate… I’m just a lil scared for the lives of me and my family. We need all of us, right now.
The problem with a super smart model is that it just may be smarter than you, after all… for anyone newly shaken by this occurrence, I encourage you to Kagi “superpersuasion”
The problem is that the people telling us about these things are the same people that benefit from their model (and AI generally) being used, getting publicity, etc.
I think we desperately need some independent group to evaluate claims like this or the world-ending Mythos cybersecurity risk and tell us what’s going on.
OpenAI already has loads of publicity. At this point, they don't need more brand recognition. This incident just has the effect of tarnishing their brand.
OpenAI leadership has been lobbying against regulation of AI systems. That doesn't comport with instigating incidents like this one, which give ammo to the heavy-regulation advocates.
I don’t think this is true. OpenAI is well known, but they still benefit from drumming up hype about AI, keeping it in the news, etc.
We did hear about this incident from a third party this time, from HuggingFace. What claim are you doubting?
They attacked a competitor (huggingface) with their models.
How and why are pr claims.