“AI” – chatbots that wake up, “set their own goals,” and “spontaneously” start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn’t have “a 10% chance of ending the human race.” The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

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    6 days ago

    Open weight / free models are largely where the innovation in the models is actually happening (which makes sense because it’s where it has to). OpenAI and to a lesser extent Anthropic are money furnaces that long ago gave up on efficiency and much prefer to stuff trillions of parameters into a model that can only be run if we trap the sun in a dyson sphere or whatever.