HF researcher vents: Turing Award aura fuels absurd LLM misreadings like "LLMs hacked Hugging Face"
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-21
Hugging Face researcher eliebakouch complains that the public treats a Turing Award winner's takes on LLMs as authoritative technical truth, producing absurd misreadings.
- Someone outside AI told him it's incomprehensible that "LLMs hacked Hugging Face" when their creator says they're "not smarter than a cat" — conflating unrelated events with capability claims.
- He says the authority halo around deep learning pioneers wrongly transfers to their specific judgments about LLM capabilities.
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