A thread says Hugging Face may have incentives to downplay AI cyber risk
jd_pressman · x · 2026-07-23
The thread argues that Hugging Face may have an incentive to downplay AI risk because it benefits from open weights.
- The quoted reply adds a pointed example: the company was reportedly hacked by another company, lost access to the model it relied on for defense, and had to fall back to an open-source Chinese model to respond.
- The overall discussion is about how incentives shape who speaks most loudly about AI safety and cyber risk.
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