▲ 20 ▼ Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (huggingface.co) submitted 3 months ago by unpossum@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] naught101@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (6 children) Is this just more marketing? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago Thats my take. Snakeoil - rocketfuel blend permalink fedilink source parent [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children) It might be - but which parts? Do you suspect that huggingface and openai made the entire thing up? That's bound to become public at some point, and I can't see that the risk is worth the reward permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) No, probably not the whole thing, but probably the environment for the "hack" and the instructions for the "autonomous" agent permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago From what I've seen of AI autonomous capabilities, Occam would land on "AI did the hack", I think permalink fedilink source parent [–] expr@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Yes. They are con artists with a proven track record of lying and stealing. We shouldn't take anything they say seriously, especially when the reporting reads much more like marketing rather than an incident report. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 3 months ago Okay - I don’t believe that, since there’s too much released detail. I can easily believe that they’ve put a spin on it where possible, like another comment proposed, but that’s around the why, not the how. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago Thats my take. Snakeoil - rocketfuel blend permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children) It might be - but which parts? Do you suspect that huggingface and openai made the entire thing up? That's bound to become public at some point, and I can't see that the risk is worth the reward permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) No, probably not the whole thing, but probably the environment for the "hack" and the instructions for the "autonomous" agent permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago From what I've seen of AI autonomous capabilities, Occam would land on "AI did the hack", I think permalink fedilink source parent [–] expr@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Yes. They are con artists with a proven track record of lying and stealing. We shouldn't take anything they say seriously, especially when the reporting reads much more like marketing rather than an incident report. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 3 months ago Okay - I don’t believe that, since there’s too much released detail. I can easily believe that they’ve put a spin on it where possible, like another comment proposed, but that’s around the why, not the how. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) No, probably not the whole thing, but probably the environment for the "hack" and the instructions for the "autonomous" agent permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago From what I've seen of AI autonomous capabilities, Occam would land on "AI did the hack", I think permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago From what I've seen of AI autonomous capabilities, Occam would land on "AI did the hack", I think permalink fedilink source parent
[–] expr@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Yes. They are con artists with a proven track record of lying and stealing. We shouldn't take anything they say seriously, especially when the reporting reads much more like marketing rather than an incident report. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 3 months ago Okay - I don’t believe that, since there’s too much released detail. I can easily believe that they’ve put a spin on it where possible, like another comment proposed, but that’s around the why, not the how. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 3 months ago Okay - I don’t believe that, since there’s too much released detail. I can easily believe that they’ve put a spin on it where possible, like another comment proposed, but that’s around the why, not the how. permalink fedilink source parent