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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

755 points · 472 comments · specked-citrus

firtoz · 1790373548 · focus · HN ↗
I didn't know some of these details and it's quite impressive what they were capable of, if this website's accurate, at least...
1. conradkay · 1790373901 · focus · HN ↗
  It's reported here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging... so presumably accurate, and they have raw data viewable
2. drpixie · 1790408799 · focus · HN ↗
  Or, it's impressive that, amongst the millions of hacks it has copied from various chat sites, were some that worked in this case.
  The scale of these things is impressive, but the mechanism is not much better than brute force.

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