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Reaction converging Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · CJ
“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
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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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 11d ago
⚡ 19 h early

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“xAI is suing a user for generating illegal CSAM content (consider not clicking the link, it’s pretty gross stuff) question: does fault lie solely on users? labs? or a mix? if this escalates to the supreme court we could have a landmark case arstechnica.com/…” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Dare Obasanjo
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Facing a class action lawsuit over X users creating CSAM with Grok, Elon Musk is now suing the users who used Grok to create CSAM. The strategy here seems to be to blame the people who created the CSAM to avoid being penalized for building a CSAM generating…”

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“xAI is suing a user for generating illegal CSAM content (consider not clicking the link, it’s pretty gross stuff) question: does fault lie solely on users? labs? or a mix? if this escalates to the supreme court we could have a landmark case arstechnica.com/…”

Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 14d ago
⚡ 10 h early

Openai first device will be moveable screenless speaker built as ai companion

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“OpenAI’s first hardware device is rumored to be a smart speaker with a human-like AI that can control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, and respond to messages. It sounds like an Amazon Echo device with ChatGPT instead of Alexa. Hard to s…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Dare Obasanjo

“OpenAI’s first hardware device is rumored to be a smart speaker with a human-like AI that can control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, and respond to messages. It sounds like an Amazon Echo device with ChatGPT instead of Alexa. Hard to s…”

“OpenAI’s first hardware device will be Alexa www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”

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4 experts · 21 posts · 2d ago
Tim Kellogg Grace SE Gyges Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Questions & unknowns
“Up to Opus 4.6, Claude was *much* better at code switching in real time. I would catch it downshifting after summarizing an article and my first question (one time I asked and it said "Ha! Busted!"…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Grace: Another possibility is that fable is much better than humans at developing task-specific ontologies / semantic neologisms
Grace: Maybe that’s just broke and bespoke combined? (Besproke?)
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4 experts · 17 posts · 17d ago
Tim Kellogg SE Gyges Cameron apenwarr.ca
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“what is Anthropic’s plan exactly? Sol kicks ass and they’re just going to *take Fable away???*” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: what is Anthropic’s plan exactly? Sol kicks ass and they’re just going to *take Fable away???*
SE Gyges: i am pretty sure everything they had a plan for turned out not to happen and they're just sort of winging it atm
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4 experts · 11 posts · 8d ago
Tim Kellogg Eli Sennesh Michiel Bontenbal apenwarr.ca
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“Why would kimi hosts set their prices based on hosting costs instead of market conditions? The price doesn’t tell us anything about the underlying costs.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: one thing that’s becoming more obvious is that AI labs are not, in fact, fleecing their customers with extraordinarily high prices serving models actually does cost a lot
Michiel Bontenbal: interesting choice for y axis...
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3 experts · 21 posts · 12d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg James MacGlashan
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“Most models, or most frontier models? I know there are lots of hybrid models, but not ones with performance this high. Does OpenAI/Anthropic even release those details? :p GLM 5.2 doesn't seem to u…” evidence ↗
James MacGlashan: An open model with this performance is great, but perhaps more striking is it looks like it's a hybrid model with 3/4th linear attention and 1/4 standard attention. This kind of performance with a …
Tim Kellogg: no most models have been hybrid for the last, oh probably the whole last year
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