OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Post by blks » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

mnicky wrote: post #86

I think points that deserve more attention in the current public discourse are: - This should be a huge wakeup call for everybody. - We are lucky that it wasn't a case of an agent running a virology lab benchmark that decides to hack a lab and tries to synthesize something. - It also shows apparent lack of competence and oversight from OpenAI: how is it that they didn't quickly find that agent is breaking the sandbox…

Post by bethekidyouwant » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

rurban wrote: post #107

spwa4 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a fake PR issue. It's hardly the first time this happens, but of course OpenAI, with its IPO now more in doubt than ever, had to claim this (and, once again, I have trouble believing Sam Altman choosing this: this could lead to OpenAI getting regulated, which has at least as much potential to lower their IPO price as to raise it). But there have been messages about LLMs, especially coding agents, "grabbing root"…

Nonsense. Huggingface reported it to police!

Post by csbrooks » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

dinfinity wrote: post #117

mnicky wrote: post #86

I think points that deserve more attention in the current public discourse are: - This should be a huge wakeup call for everybody. - We are lucky that it wasn't a case of an agent running a virology lab benchmark that decides to hack a lab and tries to synthesize something. - It also shows apparent lack of competence and oversight from OpenAI: how is it that they didn't quickly find that agent is breaking the sandbox…

> The fact that it happened again seems to show their lack of ability to derive useful oversight measures. I think OpenAI likes the attention and did not try particularly hard to constrain the setup, even when it went off the rails. Also, the whole point is to see how good the models are at exploiting stuff when unconstrained . Turns out: quite good, as expected. Let me restate what I said in the other thread: Would…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

dinfinity wrote: post #117

mnicky wrote: post #86

I think points that deserve more attention in the current public discourse are: - This should be a huge wakeup call for everybody. - We are lucky that it wasn't a case of an agent running a virology lab benchmark that decides to hack a lab and tries to synthesize something. - It also shows apparent lack of competence and oversight from OpenAI: how is it that they didn't quickly find that agent is breaking the sandbox…

> The fact that it happened again seems to show their lack of ability to derive useful oversight measures. I think OpenAI likes the attention and did not try particularly hard to constrain the setup, even when it went off the rails. Also, the whole point is to see how good the models are at exploiting stuff when unconstrained . Turns out: quite good, as expected. Let me restate what I said in the other thread: Would…

Post by simonw » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

blks wrote: post #130

Has anyone published any actual evidence, or just hardly believable marketing stories?