Have any of these reports ever said how much the cost would’ve been for the hack itself? It seems like “for twelve million dollars (or whatever) worth of tokens our bots made a bulletin board and found an exploit in our buggy grader” would be much less of a hype generator
Fret not, the incoherent anti-hype hypeboys ("AI systems are so valuable we cannot possibly discuss regulation, but also any negative story of their power is fake") will find ways to downplay it no matter what.
Everyone I've ever seen trying to downplay the severity of the attack is extremely bullish on AI (so their downplaying is presumably motivated reasoning driven by fear of regulation/deceleration)
It is completely incoherent to be extremely bullish on AI and somehow automatically skeptical of severe negative events like these
I am trying to figure out how a stranger calling need an “anti-hype hypeboy” online is supposed to make me less curious about how much this thing cost. Can you elaborate on how avoiding being called this is preferable to knowing things? What other stuff should people not know about?
I think it's a super good question! I don't think the following description of the whole event as "a hype generator" is correct or, as described above, resulting from a coherent worldview.
