When Sam Altman announced this week that OpenAI had paused some of its training after its models hacked an AI company called Hugging Face, my first reaction was: How convenient.
OpenAI, a company that might go public in 2027 (or sooner), gets to tell everyone that the models it hasn’t released yet are terrifyingly good at hacking. Then, it gets to take credit for slowing them down to keep the world safe. Nice work if you can get it.
AI models hacking things has become something of a recurring news genre. Days after the Hugging Face incident in July, both Anthropic and Meta said that their respective models had also been up to no good. The…
