alt Hacker NewsI 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.
I can accept that AI labs themselves, like essentially no company before them, are overselling how dangerous their product is far marketing. It's weird how confident everyone is about that theory, but it does at least make sense.
But come on- Hugging Face benefits from increasing the perceived capabilities of OpenAI's models to slightly beyond Anthropic's? Enough to be cut in on this PR scam- to be handed the never-before-revealed information that this is a PR scam- despite having much less skin in the game than their partner here? And then they turned around and used a Chinese model to successfully stop it? This is a stretch!