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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident

Gary Marcus
Aug 31, 2026 at 15:24
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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident

The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English:It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about Ray Kurzweil: “What I find is that it’s a very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It’s as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can’t possibly figure out what’s good or bad.”§Anil Seth, the clearest thinker on AI and consciousness, was the first to alert me, texting me a long, excellent tweet of his, which began thusly:You can and should...

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