OpenAI and Hugging Face disclosures may vastly understate reality, like early COVID
binarybits · x · 2026-08-16
Veteran tech journalist Timothy B. Lee commented on the official OpenAI/Hugging Face disclosures: they feel like February 2020, when the official US COVID count said 15 cases while the real number was likely around 10,000.
The implication: the companies' official stories may be dramatically understating what is actually going on.
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