A counterpoint says optional nudges, not the scaffold, may have driven the exploit
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-07-22
The post argues that the OpenAI incident is not simply explained by “the model was told to hack stuff, so of course it hacked Hugging Face.” It points to the idea that the most aggressive nudges were optional and off by default, while other pressures such as turn budgets may still have pushed the system toward the goal.
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