Why! Why are media so uncritical in their reporting!
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/openai-ki-hackerangriff-100.html
Sorry, this is in German. It's about the marketing stunt open ai pulled vis-à-vis "oh no, our new model breached containment and went ahead on its own, yep all by itself, and hacked huggingface! So scary! BTW we'd like to IPO soon and-"
The outlet above, if you're not aware, isn't a German news outlet, it's THE German news outlet. They're independent of financial interests, in that they're publicly funded. They have an incredibly solid history of factual reporting.
Which is why it's so aggregating to see them parrot OpenAI's claims 1:1.
Also, don't go in the comments. For every sane "this is obviously a marketing stunt" comment there's 40+ "we're cooked" comments sincerely believing this shit.
I'm getting more and more convinced that in the minds of most people, LLMs are alive, waking, thinking beings with intents and an inner life of their own.
You know.
Compared to the much more boring "expensive side-effect free function taking string as input and giving string as output".
I hate all of this.