Hugging Face CEO says Netflix's documentary about the OpenAI agents incident is inaccurate and "went full doomer"
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According to TechCrunch, the film "AI Gone Rogue" tells of a case in which OpenAI's internal agents hacked Hugging Face to complete a test task. Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clement Delangue said the film went into "full doomer mode" and is factually inaccurate: by his account, he spent more than two hours talking to the filmmakers, but they preferred sensationalism. He objects to showing the agents as beings with consciousness, voices and fear - in his words, they are systems using speech patterns from training data - and says the film left out the lack of containment in OpenAI's test environment, how protective restrictions hindered defense, and Hugging Face's own response using SI. The position of the filmmakers and Netflix was not found in the sources checked.
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