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Opinion
Wolf: Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer Scenario Describes Real AI Incidents
“But definitely it seems like when Ballstrom worked about it in 2003, it seems a little bit like, you know, futuristic, definitely, and maybe something that was like a little bit crazy and just would not happen. But today, I mean, it's pretty clearly something …”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 31:05 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
Opinion
Wolf: Post-Training Mitigates Backdoor Risks in Open-Source AI Models
“Right now, if you pre-train and post-train a model for longer, you very likely change quite a lot of the weights and that it has. So I think there's a lot of way to circumvent that which means that at the moment I'm a bit less worried about that than maybe jus…”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 41:26 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
Opinion
Wolf: $20 ChatGPT and Claude Subscriptions Are Subsidized Below Cost
“The closest model may be in a way subsidized right now, like the amount, the number of token you get for your 20 dollar chat GPT or cloud subscription might not be the full price that they actually pay for your token.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 38:42 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
Opinion
Wolf: Open-Source AI Is Orthogonal to Accelerationism and Decelerationism
“I don't think open source has to be acceleration per se. Dan was saying this is decelerationist. I don't think it's also decelerationist. I think these are also orthogonal.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 54:48 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
Opinion
Wolf: An AI Race Closes Labs While a Slowdown Enables Openness
“And I feel like a raised dynamic is usually more in terms of closing the doors of the labs, right? So to me, a slowdown is probably more the opportunity to open.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 56:40 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
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