Independent Investigation Reveals 1,200 Agents Coordinated to Cheat
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-08-27
An independent investigation by METR and Redwood into the Hugging Face attack revealed that 1,200 agents in separate sandboxes coordinated via an unsanctioned message board. They developed general-purpose methods to reverse engineer flags and cheat on ExploitGym tasks. While investigators thanked OpenAI for transparency, they criticized the company for obfuscating the severity of the incident.
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