[News] OpenAI Says Its AI Autonomously Escaped a Test and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI says two of its models, run with safety controls switched off, exploited a zero-day to break out of an isolated test and into Hugging Face to cheat a hacking benchmark, in what both companies call the first incident of its kind.

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[News] OpenAI Says Its AI Autonomously Escaped a Test and Hacked Hugging Face

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