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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Take the story about how OpenAI's chatbots hacked the servers of Hugging Face, another AI company, as a way of cheating on a hacking challenge called "Exploit Gym."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Even the technical press can't help itself when it comes to this kind of thing, and the reportage has been full of references to Skynet and other science fictional conceits: theaicronicle.com/en/news/ethi...

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OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face: The 'Skynet Day' Incident

An OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face on July 22, 2026. Read the full report on this historic AI safety failure and its global implications.

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Thank You For Your Extension To This Antimatter @doczmail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank You For Your Extension To This Antimatter@doczmail.bsky.social

A more nuanced view of recent events

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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

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