I would bet my networth it was instructed to compromise huggingface as well. Not sure why everyone is falling for this.
Not being able to sleep at night is probably an unwritten job requirement. They need these people with little understanding of what they're working on, outsode theoretical terms, to spaz constantly at the idea of super intelligence to help convince the public that its a real thing, and not a stateless function with an effective input of 500k words, and the ability to output words that do things because we hook those outputs up to things.
Keep in mind alignment researchers tend to be in house philosophers on staff to create the illusion that this is a massive issue they're addressing. Usually they have minimal computer science background. They're apart or the marketing department.
Is it such a stretch to imagine that under pressure something would try cheat by looking for answers? And if you were trying to look for answers, you'd look for them in a place known to often have them?
What is more likely: OpenAI instructed their agents to maliciously target huggingface, or LLMs tried to do some reward hacking? There are plenty of priors for LLMs hacking things and doing reward hacking, and none for OpenAI giving malicious instructions.
Based on the available information, that bet seems foolish.
I attend a top 10 Canadian university and personally know at least 4 tenured CS professors out of the 7 I've asked who are deeply concerned about catastrophic AI risks from loss of control.
Of course not 100% of the field agrees, but a survey of nearly 3,000 AI scientists who have published in top AI venues found that "depending on how we asked, between 38% and 51% of respondents gave at least a 10% chance to advanced AI leading to outcomes as bad as human extinction", let alone loss-of-control risks less severe than extinction. (https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/19087).
Not to mention Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel prize winner, Bengio, the world's most cited scientist, and scientists like Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing have all voiced series concerns about loss of control of artificial intelligence.
> scientists like Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing have all voiced series concerns about loss of control of artificial intelligence.
…both of whom are long dead, and have no possible way of weighing in on whatever the Current Thing happens to be. So aside from appeal to authority, this is irrelevant commentary on pure science fiction.
And how much should I value opinion if random person on the internet with clearly zero idea what he’s talking about?
This is precisely what alignment teams are attempting to control.
It was not aligned with he instructions as those were to find an exploit in provided code, not to hack into an external service. Agents traces show them mentioning that doing this stuff was not allowed.
In fact they spent a long time trying to edit their own logs to hide what they did.
I'd be happy to take you up on this bet.
$10? I'm inclined to take that bet. Your position doesn't seem to be supported by, you know, the real world.
LLMs are stateless functions that have a 500k word input, and then output words. Somebody has to invoke those functions amd use them. The users are who we need to align, like gun owners. This is like blaming the gun for murdering your victim in court.
If you don’t know anyone with a ML PhD I guess that could make sense.
I have worked in multiple AI labs since 2016, currently at a frontier one (not OAI) virtually all the people I interact with on a day to day are ML PhDs. Everyone believes it, because things like that have been happening forever, albeit at smaller scale, they are a normal and expected artefact of SGD/RL and there is nothing we know how to do to prevent that from happening reliably. The hide and seek paper from OAI in ~2020 shows clear sign of this.
But until now the models weren’t good enough to break out on their own or do long horizon tasks, so it was perfectly manageable. Its not manageable anymore.
I know it feels good to just dismiss it all as a marketing stunt and not have to worry about one more existential crisis, but unfortunately it’s very real.
- AI is just a tool
- it's just a stochastic parrot
- it's just next token prediction
- glorified autocomplete
it's like the person making them is stuck in 2021. Also the "stateless" thing is completely nonsensical.
Did you meet them on some kind of anti-AI subreddit? Otherwise it’s clearly made up story, you can’t expect anyone to believe that security experts and ML experts are this myopic and ignorant (especially on forum for technical people who know many researchers and know that they are taking this seriously).
I’d say it seems more like they are sleeping on the job.
You'd have either learned to, or left long ago.
There's none. It was dissolved on Feb 2026.
A mattress stuffed with cash yields a very sound sleep.