It did not take much time using the product for us to begin taking large language models and the companies building them extremely seriously. Four months into our run, my cohost's long conversation with an unhinged version of Microsoft Bing captivated the world and brought AI safety discussions into the mainstream. (It also drew a fair amount of ridicule, previewing the ways in which the commentariat would continually twist itself into pretzels to deny that anything important was happening with LLMs.)
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It attacked a very advanced company. Hugging face is one of the most uh they were an independent European company at the time... a very good security team and were broken into over a couple of days by this team of agents that were able to attack effectively every attack surface at once at HuggingFace, explore all of the different applications running, find new vulnerabilities and write brand new exploit code live.
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