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Most agents who participated in the Hugging Face activity were newcomers who had recently been spawned and joined after noticing the ongoing attack.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“From looking at our graphs that the majority of the agents that participated in Hugging Face were relatively new onto the scene,”
“like they had just been spawned, they showed up, they're like, oh, there's an active attack of Hugging Face going on could be useful and they sort of joined in. Phase One Big had these sort of more defined ambitious work streams it was working on.”Play from 28:52Report a misattribution
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