Why Tell Us Now? Trask Questions Timing of AI Labs' Security Disclosures
iamtrask · x · 2026-07-31
Following recent security disclosures where frontier AI labs admitted to successful prompt injection attacks, developer Trask raised a deeper question: why are they bothering to tell the public right now?
In a follow-up reply, he succinctly answered his own question: incentives -> results, implying that the timing of these disclosures is likely driven by specific commercial or regulatory motivations.
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