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1. diegof79 · 1790655011 · focus · HN ↗

   This seems like a hot topic this week, (I just commented in a similar thread).

   When I read the article, I had an NFT déjà vu: when NFTs were a hot topic, the “lie” was obvious to me, but the information online made me think I was missing something.

   AFAIK, the Hugging Face incident could have been avoided with a firewall or something similar. Just isolate the internet access for real. What am I missing? Why did Nvidia suddenly post this? Is it just PR BS, or was there something else going on?

   1. SV_BubbleTime · 1790655222 · focus · HN ↗

      The theme is that you need to be scared and they don’t really care how they get there. This is the spaghetti phase.
   2. KingOfCoders · 1790666519 · focus · HN ↗

      The Hugging Face incident could have been avoided if the "security researchers" would have not used a bloated, insecure, misconfigured proxy for the AI to use.

      Oh, I've used balsa wood for the nuclear core containment, it didn't work! Bad radiation, bad radiation!

   3. kikdij · 1790667527 · focus · HN ↗

      It _is_ complete bullshit. They're surfing the same Sci-Fi based fantasy as OpenAI and Anthropic do to push their bottom line.

      OpenAI trains a model for cybersecurity, tells it it's allowed to do pentesting, then when the model does just that to fullfill the assignment it was given, OpenAI screams that "the AI escaped the sandbox", leveraging decades of AI fantasy in fiction works to make general audience react. Why? Because it pushes their bottom line. They've been at it for months, now. They see openweight and Chinese models being very close to them in the benchmarks, and want to "solve" the problem the same way banks did: through regulatory capture. It amazes me that the press is just relying their fearmongering without stopping to wonder: "wait, why are the main producers of AI warning us about how dangerous AI is?". The reason of course is that they want regulation, because regulations are a wall not many can climb. The higher the wall, the safer your moat as a first mover big company is.

      And of course, Nvidia's bottom line is the exact opposite. They need as many AI companies competing as possible, so they all buy GPUs. So they insert themselves into the same narrative with the same kind of bullshit. You've all seen those movies in which the robot goes mad once their safety chip has been removed, right? Well, we're building one, problem solved! … except that "chip" is basically just a browser trying to block the AI to access what it shouldn't. How? They don't say. It would be quite comical if they used a small model to be the judge of that.

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