There are some reasons the story could be inaccurate in some ways: OAI stands to benefit if people think their models are strong, and they have a history of doing things with dubious ethics (e.g. using data for training against the terms of its creators, abandoning the non profit mission, stealing or attempting to steal Apple IP).
But there are also reasons why the story could be true: OAI are admitting that they apparently can't control their own models, Hugging Face said they used a Chinese model to protect against the attack, and an incident like this in general seems likely to happen given current frontier ability and lack of rigorous safe testing standards.
In any case, make calls to think more critically are often just disguised requests for you to replace your existing bias with someone else's.
I wonder if certain checks should be put in place to prevent a few companies from hoarding a valuable and limited resource many other industries rely on.
It's still not obvious that AI is uniquely environmentally destructive compared to some other "non-essential" industries, and it gets even less obvious when that's weighed against its current and potential benefits. Where the datacenters are built could probably be better regulated but that issue isn't inherent to the technology.
I think all issues regarding intellectual property rights actually fall under automation, even if everyone could stop their works from being fed to AI, enough public domain/open source works will be used, and enough people will license/donate their work for AI training for us to eventually get to the same point, it would just take longer, everything would be ethically sourced and people whose jobs are getting automated would still be unhappy.
The only real problem is the consolidation of wealth and power, everything else feels like a cope or a distraction.
25 is an odd choice, you incentivise them to have children but you're also making it more difficult for them to do so, and not enough will have children before 25. 30 or even 35 would make more sense.
But there are also reasons why the story could be true: OAI are admitting that they apparently can't control their own models, Hugging Face said they used a Chinese model to protect against the attack, and an incident like this in general seems likely to happen given current frontier ability and lack of rigorous safe testing standards.
In any case, make calls to think more critically are often just disguised requests for you to replace your existing bias with someone else's.