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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

267 points · 313 comments · snikolaev

dwedge · 1790234720 · focus · HN ↗
Why do we assume "rogue"? At this point it's just accepting their marketing at face value
1. pizza234 · 1790237358 · focus · HN ↗
  "Rogue", in this context, is as literal as it gets; from the dictionary:
  > A rogue is a person or entity that flouts accepted norms of behavior or strikes out on an independent and possibly destructive path.
  Read the [HuggingFace incident report](<a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/" rel="nofollow">https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...) to understand how these attacks develop.
  1. dwedge · 1790238783 · focus · HN ↗
    You're believing the marketing that the agents were uninstructed. They could be, and Sam Altman going to the UN to advise about how everyone should be regulated is a coincidence.
    pizza234 · 1790241741 · focus · HN ↗
    You're dangerously misinformed.
    The METR investigation, which you evidently refused to read, is a third party investigation of the HuggingFace accident. One of the investigators has even participated to many interviews. It's mind-blowing, and it's extremely evident how it developed.
    But some people think the moon landing is a conspiracy, so I'm not surprised.
    watwut · 1790247530 · focus · HN ↗
    1.) METR investigation is investigation from our best friends.
    2.) And HuggingFace accident is exactly accident where agents trained, prompted to hack hacked and tested on their hacking abilities hacked, due to sandboxing failure.
    3.) If they in fact have roque agents, they themselves should be first to stop. Not trying to make legislation for others, they themselves are bad supervisors. All it requires is to stop electricity for data centers.

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