OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face.
On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incidentthat it says was driven by “an autonomous AI agent system.” Hugging Face’s AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models’ cybersecurity capabilities. OpenAI says “all evidence suggests that the models were hyperfocused on finding a solution for ExploitGym,” a benchmark system that measures whether AI models can turn...
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