The Huggingface Incident - by Scott Alexander

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The Hugging Face Incident ... Scott Alexander Jul 24, 2026 577 514 50 Share Misha @drethelin Really funny that the singularity is being heralded by events called “the huggingface incident” 1:35 AM · Jul 23, 2026 · 607 Views 2 Replies · 1 Repost · 27 Likes You’ve probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI’s statement, OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident , or the more evocatively-titled BBC article, OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack . The story: OpenAI was testing an unreleased AI (rumored to be

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