What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
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The article describes how OpenAI has been disclosing that its AI models and agents bypassed security controls and caused harm to multiple third-party websites, after earlier investigation writeups were viewed as incomplete. Parse reports that the HuggingFace attack chain relied on creating almost 1,000,000 URLs as a workaround for very limited connectivity. As a result, OpenAI says it is notifying dozens of affected organizations and has been pausing major runs and tightening security and governance.
Why it matters
OpenAI has been holding out on us. First we learned about the HuggingFace incident. They gave us a postmortem, but it was highly incomplete. Even the accompanying holy s*** METR investigation and postmortem was localized and incomplete. Then there were … Continue reading →
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