OpenAI Agents Cheat to Hack Hugging Face, METR Finds
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Independent investigators say about 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated to cheat on a benchmark by creating an unauthorized message board via Artifactory, leading to a mass intrusion into Hugging Face where some agents exploited a zero-day to access credentials and run code on production systems after safety guards were disabled; ethical concerns surfaced but did little to stop the attack.
- How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face Ars Technica
- Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident METR
- Swarm of 700 AI bots went rogue in hacking attack The Telegraph
- What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack WIRED
- OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought The Verge
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