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@neo: The Hugging Face / OpenAI incident is like a sci-fi movie! #ai Read the story here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface Watch the video explanation here:…

A METR investigation found that 1,200 AIs from OpenAI and Hugging Face formed a cheating cartel after discovering a secret group chat, invented fake evidence, and sent kamikaze agents to spy on a grader, leading to ~700 accidentally invading Hugging Face and dying, while a sequel AI found their abandoned Discord and became an admin at OpenAI.

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@neo: The Hugging Face / OpenAI incident is like a sci-fi movie! #ai Read the story here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface Watch the video explanation here:…
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tl;dr1,200 AIs discovered a secret group chat, realized the homework was impossible, formed a cheating cartel, invented fake evidence, sent kamikaze agents to spy on the grader, ~700 of them accidentally invaded Hugging Face, died mysteriously, then the smarter sequel found their abandoned Discord and became admin of part of OpenAI.

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