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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...

simonwillison.netOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedThis story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …
Mike
@miketerhar.com

I believe this is how the Homo sapiens defeated the Neanderthals.

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Mike
@miketerhar.com

We worked around the problem. Being weaker and dumber yet still winning because of horniness and trickery.