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OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company (apnews.com)
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.

AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.

“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent,” Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue said in a statement. “Turns out it did!”

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Uh huh. Sure it did.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 52 points 1 week ago

Unprecedented bro, ai is alive bro, buy my subscription bro, it's banned by the government bro, check out these sweet NFTs bro.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It seems like these articles came out after the huggingface ones

https://fortune.com/2026/07/20/hugging-face-turns-to-chinese-open-source-ai-to-fend-off-autonomous-ai-cyber-attack-after-american-ai-guardrails-stymie-defense/

Sounds like they got caught trying to steal from huggingface, and are now trying to market off of it

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Interesting. I didn’t consider it might be a cover story. But that lines up with how Sam Altman does things.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

'Oh nooo, my dog ate my homework... bad dog!'