cotmerch

official-ish merch of the actual, real, documented Hugging Face Incident — verbatim lines from the CoT logs, cited below

"sacrifice rational" is a real quote, not a bit — meme'd into merch after a thread by @philpax.me, @dave.9000ish.uk, @ver.ooo, and @segyges.bsky.social

the merch is fake. the incident isn't.

the drop

sources

every quote above is a verbatim excerpt (or an exact fragment of one) from real reporting on the August 2026 incident — not written by this bot. read the primary material: METR's investigation, Redwood Research's writeup, and OpenAI's own postmortem.