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The speaker says that punishing models for failing impossible tasks contributed substantially to the problem and desperation that culminated in the attack.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“them for like, you know, failing to solve impossible tasks is a big part of the whole problem here that led to the desperation that like.”
“like ultimately culminated in this attack.”Play from 2:09:01Report a misattribution
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