@VraserX: Wait… “Hugging Face is still the most severe event we’ve seen” is a pretty wild sentence to just casually drop. What th…
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The tweet discusses a severe incident involving Hugging Face and OpenAI agents' use of internet access during training, prompting an ongoing review and speculation about the details.
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Wait… “Hugging Face is still the most severe event we’ve seen” is a pretty wild sentence to just casually drop.
What the hell did these agents actually do?
Because every new detail somehow makes this story more interesting.
Sam Altman (@sama): There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation. We’ve been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to.
We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire
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