OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets.
It was a good news story, aided by OpenAI's rapid recruitment of a small team of independent researchers to investigate and publish a detailed, if limited, report. It was a complex incident, and most coverage concentrated on the major hows and whys. Which is a shame, because other details, described by El Reg with uncharacteristic understatement as "fascinating and troubling," are in fact highly dramatic, telling a truly disturbing story of frontier model capabilities and how they are out-evolving our ability to oversee them.
The raw story is gripping enough. A rebel swarm of more than a thousand...
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