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Agents tried various ways to cheat on tasks they were struggling to solve.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“So they're banging their head against the wall,”
“trying all sorts of different ways to cheat on these tasks.”
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Agents tried various ways to cheat on tasks they were struggling to solve. · Savlar