Full technical timeline of Hugging Face incident published

How this story unfolded

10 days · 21 reports · 15 community posts · 36 of 41 shown

1. Jul 21
   • OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationopenai.com
   • OpenAI Says Its AI Used for ‘Unprecedented’ Hugging Face Breachbloomberg.com
   • OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release modelstechcrunch.com
   • OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFacewired.com
   • 2 community posts
2. Jul 22
   • When AI Attacks: OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Facedarkreading.com
   • How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Facetechcrunch.com
   • OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFacegarymarcus.substack.com
   • OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedsimonwillison.net
   • 3 community posts
3. Jul 23
   • Quoting Thomas Ptaceksimonwillison.net
   • OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming?epochai.substack.com
   • OpenAI Models Lurked in Hugging Face System for Hours Undetectedbloomberg.com
4. Jul 24
   • The Hugging Face Incidentastralcodexten.com
   • What really happened in the Hugging Face breachthenewstack.io
   • Escape Artists: 'Incorrigible' AI Models Resist Rehabilitationdarkreading.com
   • Why Hugging Face Used Open Source AI to Fight Off an OpenAI Model Attackmindstudio.ai
5. Jul 25
   • Reuters: OpenAI didn’t know about hack for a week. Agents had left instructions for future versions of itself on how to free itself
6. Jul 26
   • More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFacethezvi.substack.com
7. Jul 27
   • OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and controltechcrunch.com
8. Jul 28
   • 3 community posts
9. Jul 29
   • We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safetytheverge.com
   • Who's Liable When AI Agents Escape? Hugging Face Breach Raises Hard Questionsdarkreading.com
   • 5 community posts
10. Jul 30
    • OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistakewired.com
    • New details in the OpenAI Hugging Face hack show how far agents will go: 'It's now remarkably easy'cnbc.com
11. Jul 31
    • I don’t understand why the Hugging Face hack is being treated like proof that advanced AI can’t be contained.