An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and that they aren't optimistic about solving this problem with individual patches because "it's impossible to patch every single thing that a creative AI can do"

Harry Booth

@harryboothtime · Twitter · 2026-07-24 15:35 UTC

If OpenAI x Hugging Face was a "warning shot," what should we learn from it? That's the question I set out to answer in my latest for @TIME. https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/openai-hugging-face-attack/