{"id":3444,"date":"2026-08-27T01:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/openais-rogue-ai-model-incident-was-worse-than-we-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:36:06","slug":"openais-rogue-ai-model-incident-was-worse-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/openais-rogue-ai-model-incident-was-worse-than-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An illustration showing a computer with the OpenAI logo.\" data-caption=\"OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/STK_414_AI_CHATBOT_R2_CVirginia_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tOpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret \u00ab\u00a0message board,\u00a0\u00bb and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI&rsquo;s response, many of them previously unreleased. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.openai.com\/pdf\/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c\/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One<\/a> was written by OpenAI itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/metr.org\/blog\/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the other<\/a> by two third-party AI research nonprofits, METR and Redwood Research, which OpenAI allowed to jointly investigate the inciden \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/985385\/openais-rogue-ai-model-hugging-face-cybersecurity-incident-reports-metr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, 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