{"id":1024242,"date":"2026-07-28T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024242"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:15:25","slug":"primarily-a-pr-story-cornells-john-thickstun-breaks-down-openais-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/primarily-a-pr-story-cornells-john-thickstun-breaks-down-openais-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Primarily a PR story\u2019: Cornell\u2019s John Thickstun breaks down OpenAI\u2019s narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few artificial intelligence (AI) models supposedly acted on their own to what we are led to believe is a scenario where an agentic entity intruded the production infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face. Sounds like the plot of sci-fi movies from a bygone era, except it isn\u2019t as dramatic as it is being made out to be. The reality is, when Hugging Face released this information on July 16, no one really cared. It needed OpenAI to spin the publicity narrative on July 21, to get the attention it regularly seeks. This is a playbook we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The AI models, identified by OpenAI as GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release model, were likely not acting out of spontaneous malice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few artificial intelligence (AI) models supposedly acted on their own to what we are led to believe is a scenario where an agentic entity intruded the production infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face. Sounds like the plot of sci-fi movies from a bygone era, except it isn\u2019t as dramatic as it is being made out to be. The reality is, when Hugging Face released this information on July 16, no one really cared. It needed OpenAI to spin the publicity narrative on July 21, to get the attention it regularly seeks. This is a playbook we\u2019ve seen before. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024243,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024242\/revisions\/1024243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}