WSJ column: the Hugging Face agent incident was bad eval config, not rogue AI
QuixiAI · x · 2026-09-19
A WSJ opinion column rejected the narrative that the Hugging Face breach showed agents "going rogue." It argues the roughly 1,200 agents were repeated instances of the same agent acting as optimizers inside a badly configured evaluation — not independent actors developing hostile intent. QuixiAI retells it with heavy sarcasm at the earlier alarmism.
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