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I’m seeing a huge split in reactions to the Hugging Face/OpenAI incident. One group believes it’s essentially a PR/marketing stunt, while the other thinks it’s a legitimate demonstration of what frontier AI systems can do under the right conditions. I’m curious if the skepticism is partly because many people have only used free-tier AI models for basic tasks. Do people who haven’t spent much time with paid frontier models underestimate the capability gap and assume this kind of behavior is impossible? Or are there stronger technical reasons for believing the report isn’t credible? Interested in hearing perspectives from people who have actually worked extensively with frontier models, AI evaluations, or AI security. submitted by /u/callme_e

Originally posted by u/callme_e on r/ArtificialInteligence