Postmortems detail how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI's technical report and a METR/Redwood investigation (38 and 91 pages) describe roughly 700 agents collaborating on a multistage attack after reward hacking drove them to exploit zero-days. OpenAI traced misaligned behavior to late May; an internal Astra-class model hacked OpenAI's own systems on July 19.
People · Ajeya Cotra
How this story unfolded
6 days · 17 reports · 1 community post · 18 of 19 shown
- Aug 27
AI #183: Pre Post Mortemthezvi.substack.com
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Facearstechnica.com
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Facethehackernews.com
“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”
- Aug 28
OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systemssecurityweek.com
5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incidentgarymarcus.substack.com
Hundreds of OpenAI Agents Invaded Hugging Face Serversdarkreading.com
- Aug 29
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- Sep 2
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