Two Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face Attack — Paradigm 3
TL;DR; Between July 8th and July 20th, OpenAI had a complex society of AIs living in its infrastructure, and then breaking out of it, and then breaking into a variety of third-party infrastructure; After a month, two reports are finally released on the resulting rogue OpenAI swarm attack on Hugging…
TL;DR Between July 8th and July 20th, OpenAI had a complex society of AIs living in its infrastructure, and then breaking out of it, and then breaking into a variety of third-party infrastructure. After a month, two reports are finally released on the resulting rogue OpenAI swarm attack on Hugging Face (and also on OpenAI). This is the most severe example of misalignment yet: persistent (something between five days and two months in the making), highly coordinated (hundreds of agents), involving an undisclosed number of what would be felonies if done by a human, and highly invested in…
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