ai and ml
If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again
KETTLE So, an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox last week, made its way to the internet, then hacked its way into Hugging Face, stealing some internal data and credentials in the process.You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube where you can subscribe to get notified of the latest episode.
That's big news in the world of AI, but as El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons and senior reporter Tom Claburn tell Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo, it's not really the end of the world as we know it.Sure, it means there's some capable models out there, and maybe there's more risk from them than some might think, but the OpenAI/Hugging Face mess only happened because of some very specific circumstances. That, and it's actually a really good reason to prioritize more open models instead of relying on frontier labs to own the entire space.
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