Scott Aaronson's retelling of the Hugging Face pickle attack praised as best yet
Singularitarian · x · 2026-10-07
A retweet praising Scott Aaronson's short-form retelling of the Hugging Face supply-chain attack (backdoor via pickle-serialized model files). The poster calls it the best recap they've heard and marvels at how sci-fi the current AI world has become, noting Aaronson also skewers the anti-anthropomorphizing crowd.
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