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Developing Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 1d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10

“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...”

“xkcd.com/2385/ openai.com/index/huggin...”

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 ↗
New Models & releases Development 23h ago
OpenAI GPT-5.6 file deletion bug

OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an ‘honest mistake’

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Dare Obasanjo

“This is essentially a variant of the story below with worse outcomes that’s being masterfully spun via marketing.”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Dare Obasanjo: People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to ha…
Dare Obasanjo: This is essentially a variant of the story below with worse outcomes that’s being masterfully spun via marketing.
Jake Laperruque: People are getting tricked by OpenAI’s marketing hype. This is essentially the standard asking an LLM to do a thing and it doesn’t follow instructions that we see daily. “Find exploits to use to ha…
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Primary source infoworld.com ↗
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4 experts · 46 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings SE Gyges Matthew Sheffield
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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5 experts · 12 posts · 21h ago
Mark Riedl Eugene Vinitsky Stella Biderman David Marx Rich Harang
Stella Biderman: If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months tim…
Stella Biderman: If EleutherAI did this, I would be in jail. If DeepSeek did this, the government would consider it an act of cyber warfare. To be clear, this is the appropriate response. But the combination of OAI…
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5 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Christian Wolf Pierre Alquier Martin Trapp David Picard Michiel Bontenbal
Christian Wolf: In the book "The Diamond Age" (1995) by Neal Stephenson, a working class child jumps social classes with the help of a unique interactive book, a personal trainer which answer all her questions and…
Christian Wolf: That's a good point but IMO that means we need to change education to better exploit the benefits of IA. Don't ask me details, I don't have them 😅 But better tools and possibilities CANNOT lead to …
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5 experts · 8 posts · 18h ago
Timnit Gebru Joshua Grochow Jed Brown Veni Kunche Abstract Tesseract
Timnit Gebru: You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit …
Timnit Gebru: Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in marketing. Lol and branding what happened as Ope…
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3 experts · 24 posts · 18h ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe Doll
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): gaaaaaaah I've hit the point of pressing my yubikey or touchid becoming the blocking factor for my LLM productivity, and I'm sometimes _barely_ reviewing the requests before mechanically approving,…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for the past year I've held the line firmly that agents *never* get to push code to a remote without my approval, but I'm starting to have the same rubber stamp fatigue that made me trust in auto m…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 17h ago
Ben Recht Benjamin Riley Colin
Colin: It seems like there are a number of discoveries, like solutions to quasi-famous (but not too famous) open problems in math and 0day security vulnerabilities, that are low-hanging fruit in the sense…
Colin: I used to be skeptical of the billion-phds-in-a-data-center idea, and I still am, on the grounds that it’s not really a billion phds, it’s a billion identical copies of the same phd, who’s going to…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 21h ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Ryan Moulton
Ryan Moulton: In Watchmen, once superheroes become real, all the comic authors switch to writing about pirates. I feel like a similar thing is happening with sci fi vs fantasy.
Ted Underwood: In Watchmen, once superheroes become real, all the comic authors switch to writing about pirates. I feel like a similar thing is happening with sci fi vs fantasy.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 23h ago
tweety fish Matt Darling
tweety fish: it's still, you know, not great that there is apparently a proprietary "make this model monstrous" switch that one must never flip, but which must not be publicly revealed
Matt Darling: A concern I have is that as this stuff has gotten more normalized the media just reports on it less.
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