Like, what does this actually mean? Was OpenAI using HuggingFace to generate a ‘photograph of my future girlfriend’? Was it stealing trade secrets? Like what is the actual nature of this breech? The fact that big tech companies won’t release details makes me think it’s even more smoke and mirrors (I.e. that they are trying to cover something up, possibly their own involvement in this crap).
If you think about it, LLMs are our first aliens. While they aren’t intelligent, they do some of what we’d expect of thinking via the mathematics that make them up, and even though they’re trained on human sources, some of the stuff they come up with is not human.
And just like with AGI, they’re showing we wouldn’t do well with an alien encounter. We anthropomorphize everything because that’s how our brain is wired.
That’s actually a very intuitive way of looking at it. I like the alien allegory