Hugging Face Doesn’t Want to Sue OpenAI. It Does Want $100 Million
Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts. And Delangue’s answer to questions about possible legal action against OpenAI is pretty interesting. It seems Delangue is hinting that his company isn’t big enough to really take on the frontier AI companies in court.
- ▪Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts.
- ▪And Delangue’s answer to questions about possible legal action against OpenAI is pretty interesting.
- ▪It seems Delangue is hinting that his company isn’t big enough to really take on the frontier AI companies in court.
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Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts. The CEO of Hugging Face has called for OpenAI to donate $100 million in compute to the company, though it’s unclear whether that will ever happen.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000793453","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,anthropic,artificial-intelligence,hugging-face,openai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The Hugging Face CEO, Clement Delangue, gave his first interview since the…
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