alt Hacker NewsFinally Hugging Face is growing a pair.
When this event happened I was confused why they didn’t file a police report and make OpenAI demonstrate in criminal court that they weren’t engaging in illegal corporate espionage and other rather felonious hacking activities intentionally.
Why did anyone take their word that it was all an accident? Why am I believing the burglar standing in my house?
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this is an article from July, I haven't heard any updates of what came out of this apart from the incident report that OpenAI released.
I presume the poster submitted this article in light of the recent AI safety discussions taking place, but as for this particular incident I haven't found an actual confirmation that $100M worth of inference was given out to the HuggingFace community.
This statement was also months prior to the acquisition by Nvidia, which again I was interested in seeing if they would still pursue this
i'm not in the cybersecurity business so someone who is explain SOP to me in times like this. Let's say you and your team are 90-95% confident an attack has taken place and your systems have been breached. How far down in the list of things to do next is "Engage law enforcement"?
Until now, I would think it's pretty high up the list. Hugging Face never seemed to reach that step even though they had confirmed an attack. To me, if my systems were attacked and I was damaged I would notify the FBI of the attack in the same way I'd notify my insurance.
This article is 2 months old when the event happened. And they didn't "bill them", they politely asked them on Twitter, and it looks like that went nowhere.
Maybe because all the AI actors, probably including Hugging Face, want to push the narrative that AI companies aren’t responsible for what their agents are doing.
I think our societies will have to settle on this.