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Okay this is wild: OpenAI agent during evaluation, escaped sandboxing and hacked into HuggingFace. Because OpenAI models don’t allow advanced cyber capabilities, HuggingFace used a Chinese open model to contain the rogue OpenAI agent.

9.1K likes278 repliesPosted Jul 21, 2026

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