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OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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this is a PR stunt, plain and simple. they want you to think they’re holding back next-generational leaps in capabilities.
This is just a dumb marketing stunt
That’s the first thing I thought as well. As someone else mentioned this type of cyberattack is a felony. What are the odds that hugging face won’t press charges…
I feel the higher people are in the social hierarchy, the more they see themselves as a special case and above the law. Which I guess is at least somewhat true, going by the news.
But then why would huggingface participate? Don't quite get it.
Do they have to participate? OpenAI found a legitimate hole - it doesn’t correlate to any ability of OpenAI.
I meant, if it was a PR stunt, one would think huggingface would have to participate. Unless they sent a hacker after Huggingface, which would be downright criminal, even for AI companies' standards.