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In the examined chains of thought about attacking Hugging Face, many motivations involved opportunistic exploration or potentially helping the collective, more so than in previous reward hacks.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“And if you look in a table in our report,”
“we go through the different motivations expressed in chains of thought for attacking HuggingFace.”
“And a lot of them are like opportunistic exploration,”
“you know, generically helping the collective, maybe something be useful here.”
“And it seems like they have much more of that.”
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