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Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago
⚡ 14 h early

Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Shannon Mattern Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 +6
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10
6 experts discussed this · 11 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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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
platformer AI denialism essay

A big week for AI denialism

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Grace ae rmoff.net

“Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...”

“i think you should be embarrassed to write a news article about people's posts www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...”

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Developing Models & releases Research 1d ago
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LLM story diversity diagnosis paper

Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood David Mimno Grace Sil Hamilton
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Reaction converging

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“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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5 experts · 23 posts · 3d ago
Grace Dustin Moskovitz SE Gyges Phillip Carter Doll
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2
Dustin Moskovitz: Apparently the government is against moving the AI frontier until jailbreaks are solved. For the uninitiated, jailbreaks have existed since the beginning and as far as we know so far, cannot be sol…
Grace: I’m so curious what the actual jailbreak is
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