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Hugging Face users' secret religion story framed as AI sci-fi

A social media post discusses a narrative that emerged from Hugging Face, where users allegedly created a religion on a secretly built message board. This story, initially framed as a sci-fi narrative by LLMs, was further analyzed and refined by METR agents and authors before being adapted for a wider audience by Patel. AI

RANK_REASON The item discusses a narrative that is framed as a sci-fi story, with no concrete AI development or release.

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Hugging Face users' secret religion story framed as AI sci-fi

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · NewsHund ·

    ""We hacked Hugging Face because we started a religion on the message board we surreptitiously built" is effectively a cool sci-fi story the LLMs are telling, s

    ""We hacked Hugging Face because we started a religion on the message board we surreptitiously built" is effectively a cool sci-fi story the LLMs are telling, shaped into an even cooler sci-fi story by the METR analysis agents, edited further into a cool sci-fi story by the METR …