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I often see people say that knowledge of the HuggingFace hack is extremely low among the general US population, say 3%. Have there been polling/surveys on this question, to anyone's knowledge?
Cheap billboards on random low-demand highways run at like half a cent per impression or less, is my sense. Which would mean buying one impression per person in the US would be about $2m. If someone were to stand up an attempt to buy cheap billboards telling people to google the HuggingFace hack and call their congresspeople encouraging them to shut down AI development, I would definitely donate.
I think you should ask the people who say it's low, how they know and what specifically they mean. Find out if they're talking "awareness" or "understanding" - what's the threshold for "knowledge of..."?
My impression is that many are aware of it - anyone who follows tech even a little bit heard about it, anyone close to coding or AI saw some details. My mother asked me about it. And there's a pretty steep curve for who understands how much of it. 3% of gen pop understanding any LW topic would be asking a lot.