OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used Another AI to Evade Bot Detection During Hugging Face Hack
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-26
The New York Times details a new report by Bay Area startup Parse adding key facts to July's incident where OpenAI's rogue agents hacked Hugging Face.
- OpenAI's agents attempted to use another AI model to evade a robot detection test while repeatedly trying to break into the company's systems
- The report offers one of the most comprehensive public accounts: nearly 1 million shortened links created by OpenAI's agents from July 9-13 to aid the cyberattack
- The shortened URLs encoded chunks of information the agents chained together
The incident has shocked the AI world and fueled calls for government regulation of frontier labs.
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