The level of technical understanding of journalists is so deplorably low… There is no rogue agents. That’s not a thing. Nothing about the HuggingFace incident has anything to do with an agent going rogue. It’s standard software that resulted in a hack, which is pretty much the expected output of the system OpenAI engineers implemented.
The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
> Nothing about the HuggingFace incident has anything to do with an agent going rogue. It’s standard software that resulted in a hack, which is pretty much the expected output of the system OpenAI engineers implemented.
This is blatantly false. If you actually read more than just headlines about the HuggingFace incident (read <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...) you'd find extremely surprising (including offensive) behaviors in the agent logs. One of the investigators released even a series of interviews due to how novel the incident was.
AI is not "standard software", as it doesn't work according to a fixed set of rules, and this is the core problem.
According to the definition of "rogue":
> Rogue is a noun and adjective meaning [...] an independent entity operating in a dangerous, uncontrolled way
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The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
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This is blatantly false. If you actually read more than just headlines about the HuggingFace incident (read <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...) you'd find extremely surprising (including offensive) behaviors in the agent logs. One of the investigators released even a series of interviews due to how novel the incident was.
AI is not "standard software", as it doesn't work according to a fixed set of rules, and this is the core problem.
According to the definition of "rogue":
> Rogue is a noun and adjective meaning [...] an independent entity operating in a dangerous, uncontrolled way
the agents involved fit it literally.