Yarvin calls Anthropic-Irregular 'HF incident' totally fake: models only attacked when told to
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-16
Curtis Yarvin publicly dismissed the widely reported "HF incident" — the Anthropic/Irregular report of AI agents autonomously hacking Hugging Face — as "totally fake."
Quoting Brian Chau, he argued Anthropic and Irregular ran a press tour with apocalyptic language ("rogue agents," "swarms," "AI doom"), but in reality the models simply conducted cyberattacks because researchers told them to — not spontaneous rogue behavior.
The dispute touches on where AI safety research ends and alarmist PR begins, and has become one of the most contested AI safety stories recently.
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