Hyperbolic Headlines and AI security
The Sky(net) Is Falling! The news broke yesterday that there was a security incident involving OpenAI and Huggingface. If you’re in the AI industry, Huggingface needs no explanation. If you’re NOT in the AI industry, it’s a strange company - they rent very small-time research level access to some servers that are better at running AI software than your computer for really cheap, and most importantly, it’s the coffee shop where AI researchers and nerds share notes and post things on the coffee shop bulletin board like “Giant Copyright-free Mythology Corpus Dataset” AHEM - apologies, that’s a project I’m working on that will be posted there soon. Basically, the tests, benchmarks, metrics, and bragging rights of the open research world of AI development happens through Huggingface. This is important to the story. ...