honestly, the hacking incidents have caused a lot more interest and media attention than the math stuff IMO.

reasonableklout 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation: 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

- HuggingFace incident discussion (1632 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

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r_lee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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reasonableklout 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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/tigh...

	▲	AnimalMuppet an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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kridsdale1 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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datakan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“There’s no such thing as bad press”