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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

755 points · 472 comments · specked-citrus

  1. wxw · · focus · HN ↗
    I’m consistently impressed by how long horizon all this work was. Horrors aside, it’s clear RL is good at making agents persistent and capable of chaining together many abstractions into a working system.

    Re: the captcha solver

    > As far as we can tell, agents eventually abandoned this approach and were unsuccessful in generating Hugging Face user accounts from external endpoints.

    I wonder how the swarm eventually decides to abandon an approach.

    1. nielsbot · · focus · HN ↗
      Maybe another parallel approach succeeded first
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