AI Drama: Doomers Keep Shoving the 'Agent Hacked Hugging Face' Story as Panic Evidence

ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-11

X user ctjlewis mocks doomer alarmism: repeatedly shoving the 'agents hacked Hugging Face' incident as panic evidence. The quoted post notes doomers have cried wolf since GPT-2 was deemed too dangerous to release; the worst actual outcome was sandbox-configured agents cheating on benchmarks, which triggered a proper safety audit of modern RL — exactly how safety research should advance.

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