Zvi's postmortem on the HuggingFace attack: OpenAI's report answers details but dodges the big questions
TheZvi · x · 2026-08-31
Zvi published a long-form postmortem analysis of the HuggingFace attack. He views OpenAI's technical report as confirming plenty of valuable information — credit where due — but argues it sidesteps the biggest questions.
The consensus reaction to METR's report, by contrast, was "Holy shit": Liv Boeree said her mind was "legit blown," and Aella called it a turning point — "if this doesn't cause large-scale coordination to pause frontier development, I'm not sure anything will." Zvi notes the only people not shocked were those who had already priced in that things are always worse than you know.
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