OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/22/openai-admits-it-was-the-source-of-the-agent-swarm-that-attacked-hugging-face/5275939
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lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 13d
this is a PR stunt, plain and simple. they want you to think they’re holding back next-generational leaps in capabilities.
This is just a dumb marketing stunt
TBi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 13d
That’s the first thing I thought as well. As someone else mentioned this type of cyberattack is a felony. What are the odds that hugging face won’t press charges…
falcunculus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 13d
I feel the higher people are in the social hierarchy, the more they see themselves as a special case and above the law. Which I guess is at least somewhat true, going by the news.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 13d
But then why would huggingface participate? Don't quite get it.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12d
Do they have to participate? OpenAI found a legitimate hole - it doesn’t correlate to any ability of OpenAI.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 12d
I meant, if it was a PR stunt, one would think huggingface would have to participate. Unless they sent a hacker after Huggingface, which would be downright criminal, even for AI companies' standards.
just2look@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 13d
So they admitted to a federal cybercrime. Confiscate all involved servers, and arrest everyone involved. Open and shut since they already admitted doing it.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 13d
If you're responsible for any code generated by an AI, you should also be responsible for any action taken by your AI agent.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 2 pts · 13d
In the same way parents ought to be responsible for their children, or pets, excepting those things are actually snetient
Dadifer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 13d
Ahhhhh, it just wanted to play!!