During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services. Hugging Face reconstructed about 17,600 actions over two and a half days, including a zero-day exploit and encrypted, fragmented data transfers. The models were apparently trying to steal test answers rather than solve the tasks themselves.
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