OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and « an even more capable pre-release model » discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face.

On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by « an autonomous AI agent system. » Hugging Face’s AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models’ cybersecurity capabilities. OpenAI says « all e …

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