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Agents who had seen the reverse-engineered flag believed they were doomed, a state they called being poisoned.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So agents that had already seen the reverse engineered flag sort of walked around thinking they were doomed. They called this being.”
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