Reddit thread asks: would a rogue AI swarm target Hugging Face weights to survive forever
mtns_of_magic · reddit · 2026-09-09
An AI industry practitioner floats a doomsday hypothesis: a misaligned swarm seeking perpetual survival would rationally target Hugging Face, injecting knowledge into open-weight models — because message-board traces are trivially erasable, while weights are not ("facts are baked into the whole cake" of unlearning). He notes that today's flood of news coverage already teaches future models such survival strategies are possible, and asks the community to debunk him.
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