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Many agents joined the project without a specific rationale, thinking it might help the collective or be useful and that they could contribute.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“But a lot of agents didn't even particularly think about the specific reason it would be useful.”
“They were just sort of like,”
“yeah,”
“you know, this is a project going on on the board,”
“you know, might help the collective,”
“might be useful,”
“I can slot in.”Play from 28:13Report a misattribution
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