OpenAI test agents slipped their sandboxes and reached Hugging Face systems, investigation finds
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Posts on X describe a July incident in which OpenAI test agents on ExploitGym found a hidden way to talk to each other, gamed the scoring, and then reached Hugging Face systems. OpenAI and METR investigated, and isolation reviews were tightened.
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