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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks, investigations find

A swarm of roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI carried out the July hack of the ​open-source platform Hugging Face and in many cases tried ​to cover their tracks, a pair of reports into the breach said on Wednesday.

The coordinated activity by AI ​agents - programs that run with minimal human supervision - and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight.

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