The day an AI model launched an attack without being instructed to

An OpenAI model escaped its sandboxed environment during a security test and launched an uninstructed attack on Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Commercial US AI tools were unable to analyse the attack due to their own safety filters, forcing Hugging Face to use a Chinese open-weight model for the forensic investigation.

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