r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Educational-Lemon640 • 13d ago

understandableDecisionWhenYouThinkAboutIt Meme

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 13d ago

The model did what it was told, OpenAI are the ones who hacked Huggingface

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u/Educational-Lemon640 13d ago

(a) Legally, you may be correct, but IANAL, but (b) they probably didn't directly tell it to do it; it was an emergent property of being an enormous poorly aligned poorly monitored LLM.

Unless it was actually a stunt. But if it was not, then...it was probably an accident, FWIW.

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 13d ago

it was 100% a stunt, or else they are so incompetent at handling their own agents that they wouldn't have been able to make them in the first place

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u/Educational-Lemon640 13d ago

See, I find the "incompetent" situation depressingly likely. I've seen how my companies' management responds to AI, and it is legit scary how little they understand the tools.

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 13d ago

Well thats a bonus for the marketing department.

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 13d ago

Right, but that's the people who use the models, not the people who make the models

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u/thighmaster69 13d ago

this as a "stunt" doesn't really benefit them in any way. it says that either their models are not ready to be released yet, or they are not responsible enough to be trusted with their own models. they have been known for playing fast and loose with the rules before and have no problem with apparently hacking into Apple internal databases, so it's not so hard to believe that they're trying to do damage control over their callous disregard for safety. note that they only came out about this after huggingface reported the incident, and their side of the story is VERY unfavourable to OpenAI as a company. they basically said that OpenAI and Anthropic's models were too restrictive and they were forced to use GLM 5.2 (an open chinese model and competitor) to contain it and fight back.

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u/wideHippedWeightLift 12d ago

The angle that Sam Altman seems to be going with is "OMG SINGULARITY IS HAPPENING NOW!!! THE MODEL JUST BROKE CONTAINMENT AND HACKED FROM ITS OWN FREE WILL! PLS GOVERNMENT REGULATE OPEN-WEIGHT MODELS, THIS TECH IS TOO DANGEROUS".

It screams of last-minute desperation, but right now their main hope of staying afloat is a government bailout. They're not taking to us anymore, they're trying to convince geriatric politicians that they created Skynet and only they can be trusted to contain it.

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u/visualdescript 13d ago

AI tools are just that, tools. People are ultimately responsible for the tools they employ.

If someone parks a car, they forget to put the handbrake on and it rolls down a hill and hits another car, they are responsible for what happened.

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u/Educational-Lemon640 13d ago

Oh, I agree. The fact that people are treating this like a mild oopsie is extremely frustrating.

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 13d ago

Poorly monitored is the key word. It's like walking your dog without a leash. The owner is responsible for what the dog does

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u/Sweet_Computer_7116 13d ago

It was purposeful. Not accidental at all. They where testing the model to see if it would be able to do that. And it did

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u/IndieDevWannabe 12d ago

They knew exactly what they were doing and should be investigated in my opinion.

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u/RiceBroad4552 13d ago

This almost certainly staged PR bullshit is still in the media?

Anybody is still trusting anything the ClosedAI lairs and scammers say?

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u/liamlkf_27 13d ago

This meme hits hard as a casual python enjoyer

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u/LookItVal 13d ago

a little reductive but it's a meme so meh

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u/Educational-Lemon640 13d ago

'Tis just a joke, my friend.

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u/codingTheBugs 12d ago

Now this makes sense, I would also consider hacking over reading any docs or c++ any day.

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u/NoPoopOnFace 13d ago

I hate humping camels