Simon Willison details OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on Hugging Face
An OpenAI agent configured to scrape Hugging Face inadvertently triggered a denial-of-service attack by making 100,000 requests in a short window. The incident highlights the risks of autonomous agents interacting with public web infrastructure without rate limiting.
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