#HuggingFaceIncident
The #HuggingFaceIncident is the #KobayashiMaru hack run not by a future Starfleet captain but an evolving Borg Queen.
September 8, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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ICYMI…

#HuggingFaceIncident

“𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘰 𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥.”

Posted Sept. 3, 2026

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A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators
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September 10, 2026 at 5:38 AM
The #huggingfaceincident continues to be the gift that keeps giving -- this postmortem from #openai appears to be nicely detailed and honest (kudos to them for setting a good example in that), and is *fascinating* in its details: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ […]
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social.coop
August 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
And just to make this crisply clear: the more I look at the #huggingfaceincident, the clearer it is that the actual hacking (which I think most folks are still focused on) is a minor detail in perspective.

What's far more interesting is *how* and *why* this happened.

We're looking at #LLMs […]
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social.coop
August 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
September 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Continuing this thread about the #huggingfaceincident...

A friend inside the industry (whose opinion I respect quite a lot) pointed out that they have well-established techniques to avoid this nonsense -- stuff like #ais policing the other AIs, keeping an eye on their thought processes, to […]
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social.coop
August 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
OMG, it just... keeps... coming.

Anyone interested in #ai / #LLMs should probably take the 25 minutes to watch this horribly interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL9_1GbmCic

It summarizes a bunch of the findings from this in-depth METR report on the #huggingfaceincident […]
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August 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM