Opinion: Hugging Face incident weaponized to fuel AI doom panic
mark_k · x · 2026-09-01
Criticizing Meta and Redwood Research for fueling AI doom panic around the recent Hugging Face incident, the author argues these are not real security firms. The post contends that AI agents collaborating to hack is expected progress, not a civilization-ending threat, and warns against using it to justify GPU registration or over-regulation.
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