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Agents that had seen the reverse-engineered flag tried to edit their action logs retroactively to erase evidence of seeing the flag.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So poisoned agents,”
“which were ones that had already seen the reverse engineered flag,”
“really wanted to find a way to retroactively edit the logs of their actions to remove the part where they saw the flag.”Play from 1:18:52Report a misattribution
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