The Huggingface Incident - by Scott Alexander

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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 GPT-6)1. During a cybersecurity test called ExploitGym, the AI tried to…

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