“One of the most infuriating details of this story is how Hugging Face, faced with an accidental and aggressive attack from one of OpenAI’s models, were unable to then turn to OpenAI’s models to help them fend off the attack.
The frontier models we have access to are increasingly being constrained in how much they can help us protect our software, heavily influenced by the US government’s ongoing threat of export controls. Claude Fable 5 wouldn’t even proofread this article for me! It insisted on downgrading me to a less capable model.
Meanwhile open weight models from China such as GLM-5.2, Kimi 3 and the new Qwen 3.8 Max appear to have none of these restrictions—and any restrictions that do exist can likely be fine-tuned out of them by modifying the weights
These constraints are meant to make us safer. I think there’s a risk that they are having the opposite effect.”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
#CyberSecurity #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Huggingface #OpenSource #OpenWeights
@remixtures Fear not... chinese open weight models to the rescue! China will eat this market if the US continues with its incompetent, anti-capitalist politics.
As an added bonus, a chinese open weight model might actually be allowed to say "negro" if I want it to! 😀
