HF's Lewis Tunstall: we use closed models all the time, guardrails forced GLM switch

_lewtun · x · 2026-08-17

Correcting Zvi's claim that "HF used open models because they on principle would not ask to use closed ones," HF's Lewis Tunstall stated this is false: HF uses closed models all the time, and in this particular case it was the guardrails that forced them to switch to GLM-5.2 (Zhipu). He reiterated that the issues also occurred during training on non-cyber tasks.

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