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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by vlyan on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:04AM (#50350956)
>I think this is the new "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"

then you haven't been paying attention to US labs' marketing and regulatory capture efforts. safety, safety, safety, doom, doom, doom, look how scary good our models are, open models bad, Chinese models bad, please regulate them daddy Trump!

>Moreover, OpenAI is a pretty leaky organization

in 5 years, no one had leaked even the size of their models, despite probably all of their researchers knowing it.

HF incident, on the other hand, would only be known to a handful of people. had it been leaked unintentionally, it would've been promptly swept under the rug and get no coverage whatsoever.

>It just seems like a far simpler hypothesis is that OpenAI are reckless and chaotic

so are anthropic and google, apparently, because they'd rushed to replicate the exact same "oops! look how scary good our models are!" with exact same fanfare.

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by solyin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:23AM (#50351142)
All three of them used the same vendor, Irregular, to sandbox their AI. That vendor apparently is no good at their job because all three of them had incidents caused by their sandbox failing.