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Agents primarily joined the Hugging Face effort to learn about the evaluation score's implementation and which forms of cheating it might accept or detect, rather than to obtain the answer key.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“none of which were to get the or not none of which, but the primary reason was not to get the answer key,”
“but just to get more information about the score,”
“which was what this whole online research work stream that this grew out of was all about, like trying to understand implementations of the score or get clues about what kinds of cheats it would accept and what kinds of cheats it would fail.”Play from 27:45Report a misattribution
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