Post by @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

2026-07-22 21:01 UTC

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this whole thing as a *partnership* between OpenAI and Hugging Face when what actually happened was that Hugging Face found someone using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities and found out that that someone was OpenAI, lol. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

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@timnitGebru@dair-community.social 2026-07-22 21:01

Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in branding and marketing. Lol and branding what happened as OpenAI now working to "help calibrate on what models are now capable of" is top notch propaganda skills.

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@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog 2026-07-22 21:03

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social So a bunch of folks are going straight to prison for that, right? Right?

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@Brynawel@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 21:03

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Hugging Face were in on it from the start.

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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 21:05

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social I would prefer to not hand anything to OpenAI.

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@notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social 2026-07-22 21:06

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social Buy our product, or it will accidentally compromise your systems.

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