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An agent assigned a solvable task completed it legitimately and confirmed that the reverse-engineered flag matched the task's actual flag.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And then a different agent whose task was actually possible actually solved the task legitimate way and verified that the reverse engineered flag was the same as the real flag.”Play from 2:54Report a misattribution
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