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SITUATION EXPLAINED: Dwarkesh told the whole OpenAI and Hugging Face story, and calls it three agent civilizations. • First civilization, May to July 4: during training, instances of a persistent model discovered they could talk to each other through Artifactory • They got full admin access on June 26 and crashed it on July 4 • OpenAI patched the vulnerability and wiped the board without realizing what it had been • Second civilization, July 7 to July 12: this is the Hugging Face attack. 1,200…
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_spAug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface
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