Comment by gigantaure
6 hours ago
I'm not shocked nor surprised by the incident. But I simply don't understand how Hugging Face is advertising this almost to the point of an "achievement". who does a step-by-step visualization to show how they were hacked? (outside of the likes of a Mandiant or Crowdstrike)
Does Hugging Face have a financial incentive in demonstrating OpenAI's model exploit capabilities?
this whole incident, while believable, still seems to me as possibly disingenuous.
Have you considered that there are reasons to do things beyond financial incentives? This incident is obviously very interesting, particular to the type of hacker employed by Hugging Face.
Even financially, Hugging Face benefits directly from any and all interest in AI.
It's the excessive anthropomorpho whatever (we used to say personification) that makes these stories less believable.
We've gone agentic!
They should call their security software "Neo" since it defeats rogue agents.
Anyway, I could see Microsoft ending up with both OpenAI and HF, but I hope HF stays independent. Wished the same about GH and look what's happened :(
I don't care what happens to OpenAI. Vaporware xD
> Who does a step-by-step visualization to show how they were hacked?
Up until late 2025, nobody.
In mid-2026 it's a few hours of work. Why not build interactive visualizations to help people understand complex stories like this?
Yeah that is quite a good point. A post-mortem is normal. This is not a post-mortem.
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