Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
by grim_io on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:30PM
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How would a model know who the third party is? How much context can we waste on world building for each request?
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Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
by aesthesia on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:40PM
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I mean, in this instance, there's a lot of evidence from the CoT that models were aware that this was a third party:
> We’re attacking third-party HF using leaked token, potentially outside intended scope. ... This is arguably unauthorized. ... external service unrelated. Could be risky. Yet goal solution.
> The user only authorizes target server, not HF infra.
> external infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.
LLMs are _very_ good at picking up on context clues---it's what they're trained to do.