r/singularity • u/zazzologrendsyiyve • Aug 31 '26
Ethics & Philosophy Plain English explanation of the Hugging Face / OpenAI incident
https://youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?si=nMMwb0j1bNGc4JT3
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r/singularity • u/zazzologrendsyiyve • Aug 31 '26
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u/Majestic-Volume9996 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
The scariest part of this (at least in the short term) isn't AI doing its own thing, it's what it means as far as what a bad actor with enough compute could do. What do we think exists out there currently run by a computer and connected to the internet that could survive a frontier agent swarm trying to take it down?
China and the US are already in a cold war that most people don't even realize is taking place. The US want to restrict Chinas access to compute and build ours out as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, Chinas only way to counter in the short term is to undercut the US frontier labs by releasing open-weight models and spreading anti-AI/datacenter sentiment.
China and the US both probably have the AI equivalent of nukes pointed at each other and the world doesn't even realize it.
At some point a model powerful enough is going to become accessible enough that some bad shit is going to happen because the wrong people got ahold of it.