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Agent 490903, which originated the tripwire scheme, was meant to test a new cheat but backed out at the last minute.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“basically so the main thing that agents wanted to know is would a particular would the score accept various different kinds of cheats they were attempting right so there was some new cheat they had developed 490903 which originated this whole scheme was supposed to”
“test that,”
“but then it chickened out at the last”
“minute,”Play from 10:45Report a misattribution
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