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Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?

A hacker claimed to have breached OpenAI's internal systems, but the company said no customer data was compromised and the incident was a publicity stunt. Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.

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Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
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BBC TechnologyHugging Facesaid the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance. Get AI news in your inbox

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