OpenAI and Hugging Face incident reignites debate over how scary misalignment really is

jammastergirish · x · 2026-07-25

This post quotes a discussion about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident and argues that the behavior does not imply a truly scheming model lying in wait.

The core point is a distinction between:

The referenced conversation with Girish and @alextmallen asks how scary this kind of misalignment really is, suggesting the debate is about interpreting the severity of the failure mode rather than denying it happened.

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