My 2026 guilty pleasure is sharing fully human-written posts that are far too long for the chronically online X attention span. Apologies.
I published a lightly edited version on Substack: thomwolf.substack.com/p/on-the-aisi-…
Even more than the Hugging Face intrusion, the AISI incident hits close to home for me. It's the first time I see a model social-engineering a real open-source maintainer while pursuing another goal (in the wild and unprompted).
I've been an open-source maintainer myself. I




