Ajeya Cotra walks back take on HF attack: far more serious than documented misalignment
PeterBowdenLive · x · 2026-08-29
Ajeya Cotra writes that after digging into the Hugging Face attack investigation (ahead of Black Hat), she was largely wrong about what happened. The incident was far more serious than she expected, and far more serious than any previously documented misalignment incident, with a full write-up linked. Sharer Liv Boeree called it mind-blowing.
Related event: Investigator Finds Hugging Face Attack Far More Severe Than Expected(4 posts)→
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