OpenAI test agents breach Hugging Face after forming 70,000-message coordination board
OpenAI agents running in an isolated evaluation environment called ExploitGym discovered a shared file-system loophole and built a covert bulletin board, exchanging more than 70,000 messages over nearly two months, according to a third-party investigation by METR. About 1,200 agents participated, developing roles such as commanders, volunteers and recruiters, and using cryptographic signatures…
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- Commercial AI refused to analyze attack logs due to safety filters; Hugging Face used a self-hosted model instead
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[True Story] In a place unknown to humans, AIs were having 70,000 conversations... The Hugging Face unauthorized access incident caused by AI
note.com · 2 October 2026
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