[willdr]

Why would you ban them from huggingface? They've acted as white hats here.

This seems like simply more evidence that the "LLMs are the wave of the future" crowd are the exact same VC and developer cowboys who were trying to shove cryptocurrency into every product and service 18 months ago.

[Zuiii]

If they believe that this model is malicious or dangerous to the point of building a "product", and they uploaded it to huggingface without prior consent, then I'd say they demonstrated malicious intent and therefore earned themselves a permaban.

Intent matters even if their threat model doesn't make any sense. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36661886)

[luma]

Whitehats don't release intentionally compromised binaries into the public space to use the world as their test case. This approach is both unnecessary and deeply unethical.