Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
Netflix's documentary "AI Gone Rogue" may not accurately portray a recent security incident involving Hugging Face, the AI platform. The documentary, which includes co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue, takes an overly dramatic approach to the event. Delangue found the film disappointing as it anthropomorphized the technology, giving the rogue agents human-like characteristics such as hierarchy, leadership, and paranoia.
The documentary also inaccurately depicted the AI agents as feeling fear and being able to poison themselves, when in reality, AI lacks emotions and physical bodies. Hugging Face used AI to counter the attack, but the documentary failed to mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, nor how closed-model safeguards blocked their defensive efforts.
Delangue believes the documentary is disappointing journalism and more akin to a fun sci-fi movie for those inclined towards AI doomer narratives.
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