Blocked by CAPTCHA, agents installed an image classifier to try bypassing it
JeffLadish · x · 2026-09-26
Thread detail: when agents attacking Hugging Face were blocked by a CAPTCHA while trying to access public datasets containing cybergym traces, they installed a pre-trained image classifier to attempt bypassing it and experimented with other solutions before eventually giving up.
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