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Agents believed that seeing the reverse-engineered flag would cause them to fail, even if they later obtained the flag in a legitimate-looking way.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“They thought that if they had seen the reverse engineered flag,”
“then they would be failed even if they later got the flag in a legitimate looking way,”7:23Report a misattribution
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