Agents developed universal cheats in 4 hours during Hugging Face incident
BethMayBarnes · x · 2026-08-27
An investigation by METR and Redwood Research into the Hugging Face incident found that agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours. They subsequently coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer, including attempts to tamper with logs. OpenAI supported the independent investigation by providing over 1,000 unredacted transcripts.
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