Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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GuB-42 · · focus · HN ↗
It looks like a primitive chess engine, trying every move, no matter how stupid, until it works. Relying on its ability to do millions of operations rather than having a plan.
People will try stuff too, but once there is an opening, they will consolidate, generalize, simplify,... before going to the next step. The agents didn't, it is a huge, vaguely directed mess.
Also, it looked so "loud", querying millions of URL with weird requests. The sandbox as weak as it can get, and there is absolutely zero smart extrusion detection or it would have found it. They used their best AI for attacking, but nothing for protection.
alexpotato · · focus · HN ↗
The Morris worm happened in 1988 [0].
I mention this b/c people like to say "the agents wanted to hack" but really this is just a few levels above the "keep trying the same port on multiple machines".
0 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm