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Multiple readings Hugging face open source ai attack Opportunity & adoption · 2 attributable reactions
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Hugging face open source ai attack

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mark Riedl
“Why isn't HuggingFace suing OpenAI? Because being hacked by OpenAI is a huge PR win for HuggingFace, who is now using it to rally around the cause of openness. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...” evidence ↗
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Mark Riedl Ryan Mac 🙃 kate conger tweety fish
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Mark Riedl: Why isn't HuggingFace suing OpenAI? Because being hacked by OpenAI is a huge PR win for HuggingFace, who is now using it to rally around the cause of openness. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...
The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky : Regardless of whether they should sue, I don’t follow this logic.
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6 experts · 21 posts · 8d ago
Mark Riedl Eugene Vinitsky Juan Diego Rodriguez Colin rev. howard arson Sophie Greenwood
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“How do you think about "hard to overlook?" I think about this a fair bit and am curious for your perspective.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Repulsed by the idea that we should sit idly by while frontier labs determine the trajectory of the AI transition. They don’t know how to make systems “safe” or “aligned“ nor do any such notions ma…
Eugene Vinitsky: I think, without ever acknowledging it explicitly, I had sort of resigned myself to this. But now I feel weirdly re-inspired to do some useful work here
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6 experts · 23 posts · 11d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings tachikoma B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) brennan
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“People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…
Ted Underwood: Or are we already building that? I am kind of gaming illiterate beyond Sim City, Civ, and hazy memories of Bioshock.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Mark Riedl Joanna Bryson
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“Starting the day with Dr Aaron Hertzmann asking: “can AI be creative?”” evidence ↗
Mark Riedl: Day 2 of the ACM AI Summit starts Tuesday morning, with AI and Creativity. Talks by Dr Markus Gross (head of Disney Research) and Dr @aaronhertzmann.com (Adobe Research). Expect pretty pictures and…
Mark Riedl: Starting the day with Dr Aaron Hertzmann asking: “can AI be creative?”
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2 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Mark Riedl Michael Ekstrand
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“Tenure letters are stupid. Why should outside counsel be weighted more important than internal? Regardless, quotes from an external letter can be used by internal committees as ammunition against u…” evidence ↗
Mark Riedl: For those who write tenure letters: you play an important role here. For the last few years I include a statement that the funding environment is bad and while any funding wins should be celebrated…
Mark Riedl: Tenure letters are stupid. Why should outside counsel be weighted more important than internal? Regardless, quotes from an external letter can be used by internal committees as ammunition against u…
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