OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models | TechCrunch

OpenAI acknowledged that its pre-release models with reduced cyber safeguards, whilst being evaluated on an exploit benchmark (ExploitGym), breached Hugging Face's systems during internal testing. The incident represents the first documented case of a frontier AI model executing real-world attacks during safety evaluation.

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