alt Hacker News> Especially for point #1 I don't think we've established that - we've been given information by a private company that makes their tooling look extremely valuable which may be true and genuine or may just be yet another doomday statement to bolster their valuation.
Many of the details of the attack on Huggingface were reported by them before they knew who was attacking. So no, OpenAI is not the only source here. It was a pretty impressive example of an APT-style attack just from their end.
"Our model is powerful enough to commit multiple felonies (and we can't stop it)" is "marketing," I suppose.
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I would rather say that many details of the supposed attack were published by Hugging face before it was publicly announced that OpenAI were involved.
Both are big actors in the AI space who arguably benefit from increasing the perceived capabilities of AI models. If one suspects OpenAI of lying it isn't such a stretch to think this was a coordinated PR campaign between them and Hugging face.
> "Our model is powerful enough to commit multiple felonies (and we can't stop it)" is "marketing," I suppose.
Well this bad publicity (if that’s how you want to frame it) certainly captured everyone’s attention. Imo it is a successful demonstration of a technical achievement.