OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.
After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post.
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company’s nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversyinside and outside the AI industry, and AI leaders treated it as a “warning shot” for the tech’s growing capabilities and the inadequacy of its...
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