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Reaction converging Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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New Agents & robotics Development 4h ago
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +5
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: The US and Chinese governments don't want to stop their labs advancement because they want to be the leader in AI. So no one actually has any control of this right now. It's going to take multiple …
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New Agents & robotics Development 4h ago
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OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face details

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dylan Freedman
“The full report is published here: swarmtraces.org It includes an evidence viewer and a downloadable dataset of more than 180,000 payloads and recovered texts from the OpenAI-Hugging Face attack — the most comprehensive public data we have to date on the in…” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ryan Moulton Grace Dylan Freedman Oli Hawkins

“The full report is published here: swarmtraces.org It includes an evidence viewer and a downloadable dataset of more than 180,000 payloads and recovered texts from the OpenAI-Hugging Face attack — the most comprehensive public data we have to date on the in…”

“Read the details of the hugging face hack, and all the adjacent ones. swarmtraces.org metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ryan Moulton: More hugging face details derived from public urls. swarmtraces.org
David Marx: no, it's this cutesy emoji 🤗
David Marx: HF is an entity that has been central to the open source ML ecosystem for several years. Among its various services, it hosts a lot of datasets used for evaluations/benchmarks, so LLMs looking to "…
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

23 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jeffrey P. Bigham
“model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaph…” 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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8 experts · 36 posts · 4d ago
Dylan Hadfield-Menell Grace Colin Max Woolf austin Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social austegard.com
Matches Research & technical analysis
“I honestly think it would understand it okay, it might do better with longer context, I’m not sure. But I would definitely need to experiment with different ways of formatting the context” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Grace: I made a little Jev-based language model! It uses beam search + Jev as a classifier to judge branches based on coherence and "success" (whatever that means). I've barely talked to it so I don't kno…
Grace: (you'll need to tag him)
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3 experts · 48 posts · 4d ago
Grace B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“I’ve used LLMs for finding edits to things I’ve written, and I think I should be willing to say so. Tbf. I’m pretty conservative about it because I feel that I am too easily swayed. I tend to be wa…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Grace: AI writing, unfortunately
Grace: What do we do about this? Substack lets you check for AI with pangram, but it doesn’t show a label upfront. I assume if it started doing that authors would optimize against it. Maybe build it into …
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3 experts · 8 posts · 2d ago
Grace Dustin Moskovitz rev. howard arson
Matches Research & technical analysis
“re not practicing empiricism I like to say they simply have a training data cutoff date of roughly 2010” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Grace: Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act”…
Grace: I respect a lot of his ideas, and I want the bulk of AI safety efforts to be as far removed from him as possible
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