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Comment by zx8080

17 hours ago

It's not the incompetency. It's carefully designed pre-IPO story.

Care to explain how that would make sense?

  • They ate pushing to be regulated so they can create a locked down monopoly of 3-4 players where nobody gets to sell legal llm access like open weights. Instant locked down corporate market.

  • If you got caught breaking an expensive vase but there is no evidence, would you confess your crime? You would lie and make up some story how it wasn't your fault.

  • This technology is very powerful, and it is (and by extension, so are we) very valuable

    Also good story telling for the narrative of “this technology is so powerful that it must be strictly regulated”

    • I doubt it. At this stage, so many eyes are on the AI industry that regulation is likely to be disadvantageous to industry actors: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/wh...

      Many people are calling for an AI pause or liability/punishment for bad actors like OpenAI. You have to do serious mental gymnastics to convince yourself that Sam Altman will benefit financially from the new regulatory bloodlust. No surprise that OpenAI hasn't exactly been forthcoming about info related to these hacks.

      Furthermore, HuggingFace required an open-weight model to respond to the hack. That certainly blows a hole in the "carefully designed" claim from zx8080, if nothing else. It looks terrible for OpenAI, and decreases the probability of some sort of regulatory restriction on open models.

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Yeah, feeding straight into AI is going to kill us marketing that is being pushed and oaid for people to talk about.