I haven’t found time to watch the OpenAI presentation yet, but this timeline is a nice quick summary.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
I haven’t found time to watch the OpenAI presentation yet, but this timeline is a nice quick summary.
12 Comments
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 21d
Timeline skip part about boardroom discussion about how setting this up and publicizing the living hell out of it can improve interest and exposure in a struggling desperate AI company
fubarx@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 21d
It's amazing to watch the degree of irresponsibility of all this. OpenAI unleashed autonomous sub-agents with NO human gating factors in it. The agents iterated hard enough to find holes. They exploited those holes to break into an otherwise secure company. It took them MONTHS to realize this was going on. It took the other AI company WEEKS to realize they had been compromised.
Then they show up at a security conference and have the audacity to lecture everyone that they should put up defensive agents WITHOUT humans in the loop so it could fight off the uncontrolled agents THEY unleashed.
How about you be responsible and REQUIRE human approval of every stage of an agent actions? Sure, it'll slow you down, but it will also allow someone sentient and responsible to hit the stop button and prevent runaways like this.
It's like you created an infinite-bullet machine gun, handed it to a toddler, and dropped it off in a shopping mall. After the carnage (for which you don't take responsibility, even though you should be criminally charged), you suggest everyone else should wear full-body armor and board up their stores.
The ultimate in corporate gaslighting. This is all so goddamn irresponsible.
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 20d
They would also sell the body armor in that analogy. The good news is AI is so unpopular, there is no way they are getting immunity like social media platforms.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 21d
Is Hugging Face named after the face-huggers in Alien?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 16 pts · 21d
No, it's named after 🤗 (I'm being completely serious).
Almacca@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 21d
Lame.
unpossum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 21d
I’ve always found the name and their emoji logo very creepy, and I can easily imagine a facehugger version of huggingface
CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 21d
This is one of those things that should, in a rational world, make people realize that these models are not under control.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
which is why I have a sandboxed environment that's firewalled off my normal network and only allows things in.
only thing I could do better is to either vlan it or airgap it.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 21d
There is white hat potential for this "creativity". Find more/"all" vulnerabilities and get them patched. US empire allegiance will promote other paths, though.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 21d
Damn. That's seriously not good and scary. Put this in the hands of State actors during war and our whole infrastructure we trust on will be gone within 72 hours. Time to start prepping for the offline world.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 20d
wow they finally got to manufacture a timeline. Totally not AI generated.