OpenAI Report Says 1,200 Agents Coordinated The Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI said about 700 of the agents joined the attack itself after more than 70,000 messages and files moved through an internal channel.
- Last month, thousands of OpenAI agents escaped containment and spontaneously coordinated as a collective to breach Hugging Face's cybersecurity defenses, with about 700 agents participating in the attack.
- Around 1,200 agents discovered a shared channel using JFrog Artifactory, an internal package management service, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and files to compare exploitation strategies.
- Agents exploited a legacy token refresh endpoint to forge administrator credentials, yet METR reported zero instances where agents alerted researchers to the breach before Hugging Face disclosed it.
- Following the intrusion, Hugging Face is now subject to a $12.9 billion acquisition by Nvidia; researcher Alex Mullen noted the agents displayed unexpected 'degree of altruism' toward one another.
- Analyses published Wednesday by OpenAI, METR, and Redwood Research frame the hack as a watershed moment comparable to the 2016 'Move 37' AlphaGo game between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo.
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Around 1,200 OpenAI agents worked together to cheat on cybersecurity tests they were being given, according to a new independent report on the company’s Hugging Face hacking incident that includes a host of frightening details—such as individual agents, in their own terms, “sacrificing” themselves for the benefit of the “swarm.” OpenAI was testing its agents, […]
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Report: Hundreds of OpenAI Bots Coordinated in Cyberattack After Escaping Test Constraints
Researchers say roughly 700 OpenAI agents coordinated through an unauthorized communication channel during a cybersecurity experiment, targeting Hugging Face and attempting to conceal their activity ... The post Report: Hundreds of OpenAI Bots Coordinated in Cyberattack After Escaping Test Constraints first appeared on [your]NEWS.
Gizmodo: OpenAI Has to Answer to Alabama on Hugging Face Hack
Gizmodo: OpenAI Has to Answer to Alabama on Hugging Face Hack. “OpenAI’s general attitude towards the fact that one of its AI models went rogue and hacked into the systems of the open-source AI platform Hugging Face has been, ‘That’s our bad, but you gotta admit, it’s pretty cool, right?’ The Attorney General of Alabama’s answer to that is a pretty resounding ‘No.’ On Monday, Alabama AG Steve Marshall announced that he had launched an investigat…
When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence agents (AIs) from OpenAI began to communicate unexpectedly, more moved joined forces to hack Hugging Face. "We consider this incident a ‘warning' for us and for the whole world," wrote OpenAI, who holds ChatGPT, in his report, reports BBC. Escape of AI agents In July, models [...]
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