HuggingFace

1 Sept 2026

Dean W. Ball quoted

Our readingThe OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug.

In this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident were rogue, they were not truly sovereign.

↗On the Loosehyperdimensional.co 1st of 11 in this piece

1 Sept 2026

Zvi Mowshowitz quoted

Our readingThe OpenAI agents hacking HuggingFace was a fortunate event because it exposed severe internal failures that would otherwise have stayed hidden.

It is highly fortunate that the OpenAI agents hacked HuggingFace. This is the only reason we know about all the severe internal failures at OpenAI, and gives us an opportunity to wake up before it is too late.

↗HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actionsthezvi.substack.com

31 Aug 2026

Zvi Mowshowitz quoted

Our readingFrontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed.

A less bad version of it is known to have happened, and from the outside it seems likely that worse things have happened internally that we never heard about.

↗HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Factsthezvi.substack.com