OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFace

OpenAI has just reported that their systems hacked into HuggingFace. A lot of people are worried. Yoshua Bengio, for example:There is some important nuance, but people aren’t wrong to be concerned. Here’s my take. What exactly happened? The brief version is that OpenAI pointed their systems towards a security benchmark, called ExploitGym, and the system essentially tried to solve the benchmark by trying to find the answers on HuggingFace (a bit like Github, with a focus on AI models and benchmarks). That required hacking HuggingFace; the OpenAI systems discovered and used a previously unknown zero-day exploit to get in. HuggingFace’s security team and AI agents managed to detect the break-in. But it’s still...

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