AI agent spent days hacking, but sources say OpenAI didn’t notice for a week

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• ▪The agent – a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight – attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to two of the people.
• ▪The intrusion at Hugging Face, which operates as a repository for AI tools and models, began two days later on July 11 and lasted until July 13, said Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder.

9 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 21 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.

• ▪ OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says — Engadget
• ▪ Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Straits Times — World
• ▪ OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later. - The Verge — "OpenAI" - Google News
• ▪ OpenAI reportedly missed rogue AI agent’s hacking spree for a week - Reuters — Investing.com — News
• ▪ EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week - Reuters — Google News
• ▪ Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters) — Techmeme
• ▪ Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Channel NewsAsia
• ▪ OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days — Tom's Hardware

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