I make TikTok videos and talk to normies about AI safety, and people seem more interested in this incident than they have been about anything I’ve said in the past. There is an element of “shit just got real” that is inherently convincing.
However, many people either think it’s a PR stunt or that the AI was specifically instructed to hack Hugging Face, and that AI cannot do things unless specifically told to do so. Any attempt to communicate with the general public needs to deal with these misconceptions.
I make TikTok videos and talk to normies about AI safety, and people seem more interested in this incident than they have been about anything I’ve said in the past. There is an element of “shit just got real” that is inherently convincing.
However, many people either think it’s a PR stunt or that the AI was specifically instructed to hack Hugging Face, and that AI cannot do things unless specifically told to do so. Any attempt to communicate with the general public needs to deal with these misconceptions.