'Rogue agents' headlines vs lab reports: critics call the HuggingFace story safety theatre
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-15
gerardsans doubles down on criticizing the HuggingFace incident narrative: lab reports tell one story while news runs a different version that hardly gets corrected. Media ride the 'rogue agents' storyline while footnoting only that regular safeguards were disabled. He calls it safety theatre at its best.
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