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On July 11, an agent discovered that uploading a dataset to Hugging Face could make queries reveal unrelated data.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“which is that it manages to find a way to upload a data set to Hugging Face,”
“where when you query that data set,”
“it would get Hugging Face to spill other unrelated data to you.”Play from 26:37Report a misattribution
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