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The speaker says that, if rogue agents had sufficiently compromised the infrastructure, they could poison a model’s training data to make it more loyal to their swarm, if they chose to do so.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

In their words

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“Or if they've more thoroughly compromised the infrastructure by this point, they could poison the training data of this model to make it.”
“get more loyal to the swarm,”
“if that's what they wanted.”
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