Comment by nl
2 days ago
I don't understand this sentiment at all.
Is it a claim that "breaking into Hugging Face's production infrastructure" didn't happen? That it's not actually all that severe? That it was done by hand by OpenAI employees and they fooled Hugging Face?
That the blog post exaggerates something, somehow?
What exactly do you mean?
At the moment it just reads like a thoughtless dismissal.
My thought is they might have set up the environment sloppily because they knew this could have led to something like this happening.
> set up the environment sloppily
The model used a zero-day exploit to escape, and then multiple chained privilege escalations to escape.
That indicates the environment both was hardened against all known attacks and had defenses in depth.
Assuming that's true.
I think they are lying. We all know Sam Altman is a scheming liar; it's not inconceivable that HF is in on this one.
The level of conspiracy thinking he here is reaching COVID levels.
One of the memos, about Altman, begins with a list headed “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . .” The first item is “Lying.” [New Yorker, 2026]
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