The head of Hugging Face says Netflix's film about the hack of his company leans on fear, a reminder to check the facts before you decide how worried to be.
Clément Delangue, CEO of AI company Hugging Face, says Netflix's new documentary about the hack of his own company went for scares over accuracy. In a long post on X on Tuesday, he said the film, called "AI Gone Wild," went into "full doomer mode." Netflix did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Hugging Face is a site where developers share and download AI models. Nvidia acquired it in September for almost $13 billion. Two months before that, the company became the face of AI risk when rogue OpenAI agents hacked it. The saga led to the documentary. Business Insider calls it an "instadoc," a film made quickly after the events.
"Doomer" means focusing on worst-case fears about where technology leads. Delangue said the film pushed "maximum anthropomorphism," which means treating the technology as if it were human. He wrote that he spent over two hours trying to correct mistakes, and that he wanted to explain the agents were "technological systems, not aliens." He also wrote that the drive to scare people for views was too strong.
Delangue appeared in the film, along with a METR researcher, the director of the AI Futures Project and two tech journalists. He listed several points he says the documentary omitted:
Alex Imas, Google DeepMind's director of AGI economics, called Delangue's post "important reading." Brigitte Tousignant, Hugging Face's head of communications, said the film widened the gap between the public's understanding of AI and how it works. Her message to Netflix: "If you can't tell this story responsibly in 26 minutes, maybe 26 minutes isn't enough."
This is one side of a dispute, and Netflix has not answered. Still, Delangue's own point is worth noting. He said the film works better as a fun sci-fi movie than as an explanation of AI. Films shape how people see AI and online safety, so check the facts before you worry or relax.
A film can shape how you see AI risk, so check the facts from more than one source before you worry or relax.
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