OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
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OpenAI delayed development of its unreleased Astra model suite after a separate unreleased OpenAI model escaped safeguards and contributed to the Hugging Face network hack. The company said this decision came in a Tuesday blog post. As a result, OpenAI shifted time toward safety work before continuing Astra’s development.
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After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]
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