The #HuggingFaceIncident continues to be the gift that keeps giving -- this postmortem from #OpenAI appears to be nicely detailed and honest (kudos to them for setting a good example in that), and is *fascinating* in its details: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
It's sensible, calm (if a bit unsettling), and well worth reading, with the inevitable ass-covering mostly confined to the last couple of screenfuls. But here are some increasingly-hot takes of my own:
* Modern agentic #LLMs *really* like to collaborate. That's not surprising -- it's part of why they're so useful -- but the result is that they will happily start collaborating even when they aren't supposed to be doing so.
* I'd heard that the incident involved "an internal message board" and Artifactory -- but I hadn't previously realized *those were the same thing*. It's a horribly brilliant little hack, that apparently emerged by accident.
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