Andrew Yang reveals the head of an AI lab told him the hugging face incident polluted the internet and now it can’t be used for testing models “I met with the head of a lab yesterday who has this belief that the bots planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models.” “Now OpenAI and Anthropic have to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is going to take some time and money.” “The code gets loose, it goes around hacking Hugging Face, but what is less known is that they left code to self-replicate and create bots on forums and around the internet so that if a new bot shows up, they see the code.” “They're like, oh, I guess I'm going to now create a million of myself. So now the major firms have polluted the internet.” “But the head of the lab that I spoke to said, look, it may be very, very late in the game in terms of trying to keep the internet actually usable in this regard. He wanted to transition to the world of atoms, which is like one of the big harms.” “The internet would become unusable if we were to let the bots do their thing and then they would self-replicate. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are at this point where they're saying, we cannot do this. And we can't let anybody else out there do it either.”