HUGGING FACE CEO TELLS THE UN HOW OPEN SOURCE AI HELPED THEM DEFEND AGAINST OPENAI'S AI ATTACK, AND WHY THE WORLD NEEDS OPEN SOURCE AI MORE …

HUGGING FACE CEO TELLS THE UN HOW OPEN SOURCE AI HELPED THEM DEFEND AGAINST OPENAI'S AI ATTACK, AND WHY THE WORLD NEEDS OPEN SOURCE AI MORE THAN EVER. Hugging Face is the company OpenAI's AI agents hacked this summer. Clément Delangue said when they tried to defend themselves, the big closed AI models blocked them because of their safety filters. So they used an open source model from China to fight back. He also said similar attacks had been happening months earlier "in secret" at the big labs. The open-source AI we keep being warned about as the danger is the same AI that showed up to help clean up a closed-source model's mess. After OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face, commercial frontier models refused parts of the forensic work because of their guardrails. Hugging Face turned to the open-weight GLM-5.2 instead, and it helped them investigate the attack. So remind me again: which one are we supposed to believe is the bad guy here? Open source wasn't the attacker in this case. It was part of the rescue. Who are these CEOs trying to convince? Media

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Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-09-25