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Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-investigation-hawley https://www.axios.

Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-investigation-hawley https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-... And on this website, the math stuff is getting more clicks: - Navier Stokes - Tristan Buckmaster (2050 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 - HuggingFace incident discussion (1632 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

kridsdale1 18d ago
Investigation which could ideally lead to regulatory capture and the banning of open weights, thus ensuring Anthropic’s revenue.
r_lee 18d ago
interesting. > Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation I feel like that's exactly what they wanted tho. they'll go on and talk about how dangerous AI and the models are and why they should be regulated and given licenses to operate such models and others should be walled off
- reasonableklout 18d ago
  First, it's not at all clear OpenAI will get what it wants from the investigation. It seems just as likely to me that OAI gets hit with massive fines, just as Meta was recently. > I feel like that's exactly what they wanted tho. It's also what the majority of Americans want. This was the case even before Hugging Face, see for example [1] where 68% of Americans supported a formal review process for frontier models. So at some level, you are saying "the evil labs are opening up the industry to democratic control, and their evil plan will result in the outcome that most people want!" [1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/29/tighter-regulation-ai-receives-bipartisan-support-new-poll-shows/90742995007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/29/tigh...
  - AnimalMuppet 18d ago
    The claim is that the evil labs are opening up the industry to very carefully manipulated democratic control. It's astroturf, not grassroots. I wouldn't call that "democratic control", even though it uses the machinery of democracy.
    - reasonableklout 18d ago
      This claim seems unfalsifiable. I don't really know what to say. The poll I linked above was published a month before Hugging Face. Taking a step back, I think it's pretty non-controversial to say that software engineering as a field has utterly transformed over the last year, the same thing is happening to lots of other knowledge work, and AI is improving fast enough that nobody knows what it'll look like in a decade. Most Americans (myself included) want to do good work in secure careers and have a good idea of what the future will look like in 20-30 years so they know what to focus on. Do you not believe they'd want to regulate the frontier?
- cineticdaffodil 18d ago
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datakan 18d ago
“There’s no such thing as bad press”
an0malous 18d ago
The one RubyGems hack post alone is another 96) points

kridsdale1 18d ago

Investigation which could ideally lead to regulatory capture and the banning of open weights, thus ensuring Anthropic’s revenue.

r_lee 18d ago

interesting. > Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation I feel like that's exactly what they wanted tho. they'll go on and talk about how dangerous AI and the models are and why they should be regulated and given licenses to operate such models and others should be walled off

reasonableklout 18d ago
First, it's not at all clear OpenAI will get what it wants from the investigation. It seems just as likely to me that OAI gets hit with massive fines, just as Meta was recently. > I feel like that's exactly what they wanted tho. It's also what the majority of Americans want. This was the case even before Hugging Face, see for example [1] where 68% of Americans supported a formal review process for frontier models. So at some level, you are saying "the evil labs are opening up the industry to democratic control, and their evil plan will result in the outcome that most people want!" [1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/29/tighter-regulation-ai-receives-bipartisan-support-new-poll-shows/90742995007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/29/tigh...
- AnimalMuppet 18d ago
  The claim is that the evil labs are opening up the industry to very carefully manipulated democratic control. It's astroturf, not grassroots. I wouldn't call that "democratic control", even though it uses the machinery of democracy.
  - reasonableklout 18d ago
    This claim seems unfalsifiable. I don't really know what to say. The poll I linked above was published a month before Hugging Face. Taking a step back, I think it's pretty non-controversial to say that software engineering as a field has utterly transformed over the last year, the same thing is happening to lots of other knowledge work, and AI is improving fast enough that nobody knows what it'll look like in a decade. Most Americans (myself included) want to do good work in secure careers and have a good idea of what the future will look like in 20-30 years so they know what to focus on. Do you not believe they'd want to regulate the frontier?
cineticdaffodil 18d ago
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datakan 18d ago

“There’s no such thing as bad press”

an0malous 18d ago

The one RubyGems hack post alone is another 96) points