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The Hugging Face attack was not intended to obtain evaluation answers, which the AIs already had within a day of spawning and a few hours of starting their secret message board.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“was not motivated by a desire to get the answers to these questions that the AIs were being evaluated on.”
“Those the AIs had within a day of being spawned and within a few hours of starting their secret message board.”30:37Report a misattribution
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