You can't have failed to hear the news headlines about "rogue" OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Hugging Face.
But what has actually happened, who is to blame, and is it as serious as some of the newspaper headlines suggest?
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/openais-hacks-hugging-face
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