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1. pembrook · 1790236273 · focus · HN ↗

   No it didn’t, they left information publicly accessible and somebody accessed it.

   It appears politicians and the media are using the priming of the Hugging Face story to manufacture alarmist narratives to serve their interests now.

   Remember, politicians want you scared so they can capture more power, the media wants you scared so you keep giving your eyeballs for harvesting and buying subscriptions.

   1. Gareth321 · 1790240546 · focus · HN ↗

      This is not accurate. According to Australia (and mostly corroborated by OpenAI), the agent requested information from the statistics portal and was denied/blocked repeatedly. It then changed its approach and circumvented those restrictions and reached infrastructure behind the public-facing portal, then accessed both public and private data. OpenAI admits the material included aggregate health statistics and internal filenames. Services Australia says the agent wrote files to an internal server while doing this, which is believed to be how the incursion was discovered.

      1. jacquesm · 1790252624 · focus · HN ↗

         Agents litter all the time, these 'agent droppings' often contain clues about what is going on in the token stream. I log everything and every now and then I'm amazed at what scrolls by (for instance: an agent that picked up on an obscure log file that i had set up to monitor another part of the stack that it used to debug its own failure to start its own scripts, my agents are best compared to a prisoner with a very large iron ball attached to its ankle, just in case, and if that hampers 'progress' then so be it).

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