NY Post's AI incident reporting slammed: Hugging Face hack was real, not hype
trevposts · x · 2026-09-20
AI safety researcher Nathan Calvin criticizes a New York Post report implying sources inside Anthropic and OpenAI confirmed the companies were "hyping up" AI incidents — when the paper actually only interviewed random external tech commentators.
- The victim (Hugging Face), the perpetrator, and everyone who reviewed the details agree the HF attack was a real and serious incident; calling it exaggerated misleads readers.
- The post asks: if reporting incidents fueled hype, why did OpenAI delay reporting others (the Ruby stuffer and Wiki incidents), and why did Anthropic initially downplay its own?
- The reblogger adds that the NY Post has been posting obviously planted, fact-riddled garbage.
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