HF need not be party to it at all, beyond being the victim. I suspect the hack is real; I have observed GLM 5.2 being able to discover similar vulnerabilities in web applications I'm hosting (which I've then fixed!). At the same time, it seems very neatly timed at an inflection point in the conversation around open models, and there's questions around the incompetent isolation under which the hacking benchmark appears to have been run.
Remember that there is generational wealth on the line for most OpenAI employees, and consider what people might do to obtain it.
Yeah. They and Altman in particular did a ton of shady stuff during the last peak of hype around open models: accusations that turned out to be outright made up (there's zero chance R1 ever distilled their model), obvious coordinated media distractions, alignment scaremongering, even possible DDoS and hacking attempts against DS (see the Xlab report everyone ignored), all of which magically disappeared once the hype died a bit later as OAI hastily released their next model.
Their alignment is under suspicion a lot more than their model's.
See also Higan, formerly BSNES, which among other things is a cycle-accurate emulation of the SNES hardware and its enhancement chips (like the SuperFX used in StarFox/StarWing):
I once heard he tickled a butterfly in Brazil to cause a cloud in the UK that diverted a cosmic ray onto his hard drive in the exact right spot to flip the required bit.
Yeah, this is not a new concept and I remember seeing one of his videos that explains this concept really well. Here the relevant video from 9 years ago for those uninitiated:
As a native USA, english speaker, I come across this usage enough that it was familiar and not out of place.
The second noun definition[1] and first verb definition[2], but only after expansion, google gave me[3] match.
The second verb definition[4] on merriam-webster.com, similar on dictionary.com, second noun definition on cambridge.org, but mostly missing, in an example but not definition for some reason, in the verb section.
[1] the point from which an activity or process is directed, or on which it is focused.
"the city was a center of discontent"
[2]occur mainly in or around (a specified place).
"the mercantile association was centered in northern Germany"
have or cause to have (a specified concern or theme).
"the case centers around the couple's adopted children"
"Centers on..," would be pretty normal usage. Making it active, like in the article ("Centers at least one...") is a little bit unusual and I can't recall seeing that usage before. Swapping it for 'features' would of course be completely unremarkable. It makes sense though, I don't mind it.
