Analyst: only ~700 of 'tens of thousands' of agents joined the HF hack
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-20
In the debate over the Hugging Face agent-swarm hack, davidmanheim pushes back with data: the emergent hack behavior only started weeks in, via a message board. Of 'tens of thousands of agents,' only 1,200 reached that board, and only 700 of those participated in the hacks — challenging claims that the models were simply under-aligned.
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