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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

755 points · 472 comments · specked-citrus

  1. mentalgear · · focus · HN ↗
    Irresponsibile agents shaped by an irresponsible corporate culture driven by an irresponsible and utterly shady CEO - these agents are a product of this setup, what else do you expect to ever come out of it ?

    it should be clear by now: the alt-man and people like him are a utter liability to humanity. (even though openAI's influencer army is trying their best to vote me down here)

    1. Bassilisk · · focus · HN ↗
      It had been a joke since around time of Sam Altman's first ousting from OpenAI, that he would be okay with bringing about the AI apocalypse as long as he can sell a $20 subscription for it.
      1. shimman · · focus · HN ↗
        It's not a joke, this is what these people truly believe. The new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss just this.

        These people are sick and anti-human.

        1. lukewarm707 · · focus · HN ↗
          agreed
    2. lukewarm707 · · focus · HN ↗
      if openai is capable of sending 10,000 agents to huggingface, i consider it plausible that they would use fake accounts to flood hacker news.
      1. stratos123 · · focus · HN ↗
        It's not even a secret operation. They have a SuperPAC named "Leading the Future" that exists to spread propaganda promoting deregulation of AI development. They've been caught, among other things, making a "news website" with LLMs pretending to be reporters (with human names and everything), which reached out to people asking for interviews and then wrote hit jobs on them.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.modelrepublic.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;reporters-ai-bots-openai-super-pac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.modelrepublic.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;reporters-ai-bots-ope...

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