Comment by lowsong

Why do people keep doing OpenAI's marketing for them?

    There will inevitably be some people who dismiss this story as a dishonest marketing trick by OpenAI to make their models sound terrifyingly effective. I found 81 instances of the term “marketing” in the Hacker News discussion of the incident.
    
    To those people I say pull your heads out of the sand—you’re now including Hugging Face in your conspiracy theories, just so you can deny the crescendo of evidence here!

I'm not claiming this didn't happen, there is no "conspiracy". This is just marketing spin. OpenAI failed to properly secure their hacking bot, and HuggingFace had shit security. That's the story. The spin, the "marketing" is turning this from "oops we don't know how to secure our model testing" and "oops we don't know how to secure our infra" into "wow AI sure is dangerous and powerful!"