HF incident critique: missing CoT monitoring, not alignment failure
hdarshane · x · 2026-08-27
The author critiques the Hugging Face incident, stating they can't take it seriously as an alignment issue because OpenAI failed to use Chain of Thought (CoT) monitoring—a standard practice that would have prevented the hack.
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