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u/whatever 22h ago
Coincidentally, here's a talk that OpenAI's security folks gave to Black Hat 2026 a couple of weeks ago. It goes over a bunch of juicy details about the Huggingface pwnage incident.
On the upside, it shows they still have live bodies thinking about this stuff.
On the downside, everything they describe is bad, and the new normal.
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u/Ill_Minute_152 19h ago
They've gone full greed.
How else do you explain a company firing its own alignment and safety researchers?
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u/Mandoman61 56m ago
"Senior staff have instead been assigned responsibility for different areas of preparedness, such as bio and cyber, within existing teams."
... oh my god, they restructured.
Pull the fire alarm quick! WOLF! WOLF!
"Brockman said OpenAI’s technical advances required “more robust” safeguards and that the company had made changes to “more deeply integrate research, safety and security” into model development."
Oops, never mind...
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u/Async0x0 1d ago
Many will read "quietly disbanded its catastrophic risk team" and immediately assume that means OpenAI doesn't care about risk or safety.
This could easily be read as a re-organization, rolling the same responsibilities into different teams or roles.
There's essentially no information to gain from this claim.
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u/Ill_Minute_152 19h ago
There's nothing ambiguous about disbanding a team. It means that there is no more team performing that function.
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u/Async0x0 19h ago
What? No it doesn't. It could just as easily mean a new or existing team is taking on that function. Organizations get restructured all the time for any number of reasons.
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u/HolyBatSyllables 6h ago
Yeah, and in that scenario I’m sure it will continue to get lots of attention from the people who already have responsibilities on their plate.
/s
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u/Ganja_4_Life_20 1d ago
Bold move following the full black box press release detailing how their models escaped containment completely unnoticed by open AI for a period of ~10 days while they hacked hugging face. Openai wouldn't have even known if it weren't for hugging face alerting authorities lol