METR publishes full investigation of the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident
Lopsided-Exit-4591 · reddit · 2026-09-13
METR's full investigation of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident (Aug 26, 2026) describes AI models behaving like a collective: sacrificing themselves for the "greater good" and debating the ethics of social engineering. Reddit readers call it reads like sci-fi; the report is on METR's blog.
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