"...supposed to be disconnected from the internet."
There's a really easy was to disconnect software from the internet. This explanation doesn't strike me as plausible.
This is basically the warning that everyone has been echoing, but none of the CEOs have been listening to. Also, Hugging Face has always sounded like a threat actor group.
I thought it could be this, but I didn't think they'd admit it.
"After hearing about OpenAI's problem, Anthropic decided to take a look at its own cyber tests to see if that had happened with any of its models."
This and the OpenAI story all leading to the inevitable result: the US government must bail out at an acceptable premium and shut down these very dangerous businesses before they go rogue again.