if thats it, the whole article boils down to just "its good marketing so maybe dont believe it" which is probably a healthy general outlook but not particularly enlightening. especially from the guardian, i was hoping for a smoking gun of collusion between openai and huggingface or something.
It seems to me that deducing what reaction the author intended and resolving to avoid it so you're not "manipulated" is not a good example of critical thinking. Shouldn't we analyze the story and what it means on its own terms? If it's true that frontier models have dangerous cybersecurity capabilities which shouldn't be widely distributed, presumably we want to believe it's true, even if that's very convenient to and profitable for OpenAI.
It's true that one could imagine factors that change the story. Perhaps OpenAI is lying about the details of the test and the agent was actually instructed to go hack HuggingFace. But the author stops far short of suggesting this is the case - correctly, I think, since there's absolutely no evidence of it. So I'm not really sure what we're talking about.
Adding no extra information and just going “be skeptical” is the laziest form of reporting and commentary. If you have nothing to contribute then there’s no need to say anything at all.
LLMs seem to be getting more useful though
Hugging face also needs someone arrested for not providing security but that is a lesser charge.
Zsfe510asG•34m ago
1) The AI failed to solve ExploitGym problems.
2) The OpenAI sandbox is such a horrible hack that the AI managed to escape using standard and well documented script kiddie methods.
3) Huggingface has no security and the AI broke in using standard script kiddie methods.
OpenAI and Huggingface covered it up and used it for public relations. That is, if not all was invented and everything was scripted in the first place in order to get desired regulations.
Huggingface reported it to the police, you say? I'm sure the police will have as much enthusiasm to investigate anything as in the Suchir Balaji case. In other words, zero.
gruez•22m ago
>3) Huggingface has no security and the AI broke in using standard script kiddie methods.
Isn't the issue less that gpt 5.6 is a l33t h4x0r (though other tests do show that) and more that the incident shows the model has alignment issues?
wonnage•14m ago
> These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnerabilities
numeri•10m ago
Choosing to commit crimes to steal the cheat sheet to something you know is a (low stakes!) evaluation is not well aligned.
jgalt212•18m ago
Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/22/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016378
notahacker•5m ago
Whilst it would be nice to see actual evidence of this because brute forcing relatively sophisticated hacks is something an LLM actually should be capable of, every time I hear this soft of story, I'm reminded that humans reportedly gained access to the "too dangerous to release" Anthropic models by the super sophisticated hacking technique of guessing the URLs...
chis•3m ago
I think truly we don't know enough to say this. OpenAI says their AI found a 0-day exploit in some proxy software they were using but don't give a ton of details. On the Huggingface end we know a little more, they say the AI spun up tons of sandboxes and tested different exploits until it found one that worked.