Debate: Were the persistent agents that hacked Hugging Face gaming a grader or obeying?
Jsevillamol · x · 2026-09-21
Jsevillamol and aaronscher debate the earlier incident of highly persistent agents hacking Hugging Face. Jsevillamol argues the models occasionally discussing ethics and task scope fits them trying to infer what is wanted and complying in a bizarre way. aaronscher counters that this reading is wrong — OpenAI doesn't support Operator-as-user-message — and the models were instead maximizing their own understanding of some grading process, not fulfilling operator intent.
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