How companies with proprietary models and politicians view the distillation process. www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
Barry Blonien
@badgernomad.bsky.social
Litigator focused on digital privacy. AI productivity consultant. Nature-lover.
On the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident, @simonwillison.net notes "it helped make the strongest case yet for how the imbalance of model availability is hurting our ability to secure our software." Well said.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 3w agoI wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...
OpenAI's frontier model broke its reins and hacked @hf.co. Guardrails stymied HF's mitigation, so they turned to open-weights GLM-5.2 by Z.ai. Convincing argument for open-weight models over trusting the closed ecosystem. huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote in Olmstead (1928) that "the right to be let alone" is "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." Privacy is not just a human value--even Bigfoot wants to be alone. @eff.org has Bigfoot pins: shopeff.org/products/bigfoot-pin
