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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Live tension Openais ai us government websites Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings Openai model safety guardrails Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 5d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Damien Williams
“They were actively testing its hacking capabilities and they did not deploy adequate safeguards. They themselves admit as much: "…These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnera…” evidence ↗
23 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Damien Williams Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 +15
6 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Signal 2d ago
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Openais ai us government websites

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Kashmir Hill
“Gift link to latest on ‘unexpected’ developments with generative AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Kashmir Hill Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Rafael M Batista Pavel Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle +3
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 13d ago
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Openai model safety guardrails

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mor Naaman
“"many of the six incidents involved older A.I. models that were never deployed" according to OpenAI. That just puts your mind at ease, doesn't it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...” evidence ↗
8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Mor Naaman Anna Mills Eileen Clancy 🧿 Andrew Curran VE, cybersocial occult investigator Jon Keegan
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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essay how to talk AI

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11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
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5 experts · 7 posts · 15d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 David Kaye VE, cybersocial occult investigator Doll Amy Hoy
Matches Building & implementation
“marketing is much harder task than development in like 99% of cases and that’s not gonna change bc you can’t vibe marketing success” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Building & implementation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: (This was always a myth by big VC to invest more venture capital)
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Not to the people with dollar signs in their eyes
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