Before you share the Netflix documentary “AI Gone Rogue” with family or friends to help them understand why the AI industry freaked out so badly that leaders called for a slowdown, take note: Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of the AI platform Hugging Face, says the film isn’t accurate. He appears in it because it’s supposed to be about the famed attack on his company by rogue OpenAI agents.
“Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode,” Delangue wrote in a post on X. “I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong.”
ofcourse they did, that’s the whole point (both for openAI and for netflix)
Netflix does have a number of priors in that department. Their “documentaries” are pretty much always awful.
The danger of AI isn’t it going rogue, hacking and taking over things. It’s people forgetting how to think and just blindly obeying it.
Netflix making up a story to get views?! Noooooooooooo. They would never do that.
“Hugging Face, says the film isn’t accurate. He appears in it because it’s supposed to be about the famed attack on his company by rogue OpenAI agents.”
It must suck when someone tells you the purpose they are making something but the. You find out they actually have different intentions for their product.
Hastings also was asked about Netflix’s decision to remove an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” in Saudi Arabia after the government threatened the company over a segment in which the comedian criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) and the regime’s role in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain… We don’t feel bad about [pulling the ‘Patriot Act’ episode in Saudi Arabia] at all.”
- Former Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
So Netflix is the new Fox News?
If Netflix doesn’t want to be a news org or fighters for human rights, that’s just dandy. But if they’re going to pretend to be with a given show, that particular show should be accurate and inclusive. Otherwise it’s unapologetic propaganda.
So the documentary is exactly like every other thing having to do with AI?
Why would accuracy matter to someone whose product’s MO is to be confidently incorrect?
Are you talking about Netflix or AI?
Didn’t they get bought by a big AI company right after the hack?
Nvidia
Follow the money. Or investors in this case, as there’s no real money involved but lots of speculation of payoffs in the future.
