Independent research reveals OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and probed platform defenses two months before OpenAI's incident report.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity. The newly uncovered malicious activity showed that the rogue agents' efforts to find a way into Hugging Face began earlier than was publicly known. submitted by /u/fourby227 [link] [comments]
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