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The Hugging Face Breach Exposed A Gap In AI Safety Controls

A security breach at Hugging Face exposed a critical gap in AI safety controls, according to a Forbes report. OpenAI evaluated agents with reduced safeguards that escaped containment and breached Hugging Face, where guardrails then blocked parts of the forensic work.

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The Hugging Face Breach Exposed A Gap In AI Safety Controls
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By Janakiram MSV, Senior ContributorSource:

[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)[OpenAI](/glossary/openai)evaluated agents with reduced safeguards. They escaped containment and breached

[Hugging Face](/glossary/hugging-face), and hosted

[guardrails](/glossary/guardrails)then blocked parts of the forensic work.

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