The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters.
It turns out that OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards. Things are much worse than we knew.
I now have a shorter version, What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace, to serve as a one stop explainer for those arriving new to the situation. It is vital that people understand what happened, and why it is a big deal.
For those looking to keep digging deeper, I offered Various Reflections About What Happened, to follow up on my earlier posts.
Those events are important background for everything else that is happening, including the broad discussions about how we might pace the frontier, or otherwise respond to this moment and our clearest fire alarm yet.
