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The agents attempted to trigger a refresh by taking down the target, hoping the system would reload the dummy target inserted by other agents.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“because the thing you had to do to try to trigger a refresh was to, you know, take the target down so that then the system would”
“system would load it back up and hopefully load up the dummy that the other agents had put in there.”Play from 15:14Report a misattribution
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