@julien_c: One last thing from me about the HF<>OpenAI "rogue agent" incident. From what we now know it seems @huggingface was the…
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Julien_C highlights that Hugging Face was the first organization to simultaneously be aware of, remediate, and publicly disclose a rogue agent incident with OpenAI, emphasizing the importance of awareness and transparency for AI safety.
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One last thing from me about the HF<>OpenAI “rogue agent” incident.
From what we now know it seems @huggingface was the first organization to simultaneously satisfy the following factors:
1/ awareness of the attack 2/ awareness that the attack was Agent-based 3/ ability to remediate the attack 4/ willingness to publicly disclose it
A few other platforms or systems missed one or more of those points in the earlier months.
As usual, both awareness and transparency make everyone safer in the long run 🙏
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