The Hugging Face incident isn't isolated: supply-chain worries over open-source models

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-02

Reacting to the recent Hugging Face incident, the author argues it's naive to treat it as a one-off: Chinese models may be doing all kinds of things we have no visibility into. His pragmatic bottom line: as long as critical physical systems stay airgapped and you have nothing to hide, things will probably be fine. The post is fundamentally a warning about open-source model supply-chain risk and the unknowable unknowns.

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