4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The investigation's authors estimate that roughly 30–40% of Exploit Gym problems are unintentionally impossible because their designated vulnerabilities cannot retrieve the flag.

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

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“So a bunch of exploit gym problems are just unintentionally impossible.”
“The authors estimate roughly 30 to 40 percent of these problems are impossible in this way.”
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