Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.
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Notable Quotes
"If y'all can't understand that this was written to purely brag about the model then I don't know what to tell you."
— Sam Altman , Executive
"Isn't it lucky [that] out of the millions of sites that got pwn3d [hacked], OpenAI managed to pwn someone who also could benefit from the marketing exposure…"
— Daniel Card , Other
"The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident is a real-world example of a broader issue we've been highlighting for months."
— Dor Sarig , Other
"OpenAI had 'egg on its face.'"
— Alan Woodward , Academic
Key People
A computer scientist at Surrey University.
Daniel Card is a cybersecurity consultant.
Dor Sarig is from Pillar Security.
Katie Moussouris is a cybersecurity expert and CEO of Luta Security.
Chief executive officer of OpenAI.
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Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.
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