Ex-Anthropic pretraining researcher quits citing reckless AGI race; HF dev calls LLM hype misinformation
apsarathchandar · x · 2026-09-11
A three-layer quote-tweet storm: an anonymous user says they resigned from Anthropic after three years of pretraining research across OpenAI and Anthropic, accusing both labs of racing recklessly toward self-improving superintelligence. Hugging Face engineer NielsRogge piled on, arguing the world was misled into thinking we already have super-powerful AI when we only have LLMs: unreadable code, no learning over time, fixed corpora, uniform compute per token, no generalization beyond RL environments, and no grounding in the physical world.
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