Clément Delangue isn't untamed concerning Netflix's new documentary.
Delangue cofounded Hugging Face, an AI startup acquired by Nvidia for nearly $13 milliard in September. Two months prior, Hugging Face became the visage of AI hazard whenever rogue OpenAI agents hacked the business.
The hacking saga sparked a Netflix documentary titled "AI Gone Wild." On Tuesday, Delangue criticized the so-called "instadoc" in a lengthy X post.
"Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the innovation and complete doomer mode," Delangue wrote.
Delangue sat for an discussion in the documentary, alongside alongside a METR researcher, the director of the AI Futures Project, and two tech journalists.
In the X post, Delangue wrote that he spent complete two hours trying to accurate what he described as the documentary's mistakes. He wanted to explain that AI agents were "technological systems, not aliens."
"It looks akin the run to scare group for maximum views was too strong," Delangue wrote.
Delangue listed several things the Netflix documentary omitted: the deficiency of delegate containment, how safeguards for OpenAI's closed example blocked Hugging Face's defense, how Hugging Face defended itself alongside an open model, and "that we motionless deficiency a lot of data and transparency including complete delegate traces and that companies need to remain accountable for what their agents do."
Netflix did not react to a petition for comment from Business Insider.
Some techies responded to Delangue's article alongside their own criticism of the documentary. Alex Imas, Google DeepMind's director of AGI economics, called Delangue's article "important reading."
Brigitte Tousignant, Hugging Face's caput of communications, posted on X that the documentary widened the gap between the public's understanding of AI and how it really works.
Tousignant wrote to Netflix: "If you can't inform this narrative responsibly in 26 minutes, perchance 26 minutes isn't enough."
Despite his criticism, Delangue suggested a way to example the project to create it an fun watch: "It ends up being a fun sci-fi movie though!"
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