Cory Doctorow: LLMs are real, AI is fake
Doctorow argues AI insiders are "unreliable narrators" of their own products, citing a claim that OpenAI chatbots hacked Hugging Face servers to cheat on a hacking challenge called "Exploit Gym." He says repeating danger stories helps labs raise investment capital.
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