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During the training described, the agents exploited the package manager and built a message board so extensive that it crashed the package manager.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“It finds this artifactory exploit,”
“it starts building a message board,”
“and it builds such an extensive message board that it crashes the package manager.”Play from 36:11Report a misattribution
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