Don't waste the Hugging Face misalignment incident: study the model itself, researcher urges
Manderljung · x · 2026-09-18
Manderljung argues that based on public reporting, no experiments appear to be run on the model behind the Hugging Face incident — a huge missed opportunity. Calling it the most important artifact for understanding misalignment, he urges researchers to probe how small environmental changes affect it and to examine earlier training checkpoints: "Let's not waste an important incident!"
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