Researcher likens the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident to the 1988 Morris worm
EhudReiter · x · 2026-07-24
A researcher compares the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident to the Morris worm
Ehud Reiter says reading about the OpenAI AI attacking Hugging Face reminded him of the 1988 Morris worm.
- He notes the technical details are different
- But in both cases, an “experiment” got out of control
- The result was damage followed by major media attention
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