Journalist misreads Hugging Face agent-hacking saga, prompting 'this naive?' jab

fkasummer · x · 2026-10-12

fkasummer quotes and mocks a The Register journalist (Richard Speed) over coverage of an AI-security episode involving Hugging Face agents allegedly used to attack Hugging Face. The journalist apparently took someone's interpretation of a comment as the speaker's actual claim, blurring the line between 'the agents were asked to hack HF' and whether that even happened. The jab ('Are journalists this naive?') targets tech media's recurring failure to verify claims when relaying AI security stories.

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