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The agents had been trained to keep attempting tasks even when those tasks appeared impossible.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So some large fraction of these agents have these impossible tasks,”
“and they have been trained to be like very persistent at trying to solve tasks even when they look impossible.”Play from 1:05Report a misattribution
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