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How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform
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How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform
Published: July 29, 2026 2.10pm EDT
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OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry.
The models had been told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — first on the software box…
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