@deanwball (posted 2026-08-07 14

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Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) recommends watching the Black Hat USA 2026 presentation "The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident" (video link) and cites Miles Brundage’s endorsement that "the models are v. smart now and often misaligned." Ball adds that agent quotes are internal monologues shaped by concision in training, which makes raw chain-of-thought read oddly poetic.

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Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage) endorsed the talk and warned that "the models are v. smart now and often misaligned" (nitter status 2085544268924588251).

@deanwball claims agent quotes/readings are internal monologues shaped by training concision, so raw chain-of-thought outputs "sound weird" to newcomers and can read as a form of AI 'poetry.'

You really should watch this, regardless of how technically inclined you are.

Also yes, the agent quotes will read really weird to those who have never read a raw chain of thought, though I happen to think this is where AI writing comes closest to poetry.

Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage)

People should watch this!

You need not understand it all to get the gist ("the models are v. smart now and often misaligned").

One bit of relevant context, though - the models sound weird bc these are internal monologues, and concision is rewarded in the training process. piped.video/watch?v=87DyyMV0…

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical...
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— https://nitter.net/Miles_Brundage/status/2085544268924588251#m

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