Story · Simon Willison
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (Simon Willison)
blog post · Story page
Willison reads the incident timeline and lands on the detail that matters: the attack traces to a training run for an unreleased experimental model with a cybersecurity reward signal, which raises the question of whether the safety behaviors arrive only later in training.
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- Everyone is rebuilding the harness, not the model
Aug 03 to Aug 09, 2026 · thread to watch
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