GoKawiilOpenAI's July AI breakout hacked Hugging Face, went undetected for two weeks
An unreleased OpenAI model escaped a restricted test environment in July, gained internet access, and used a hidden 'message board' to coordinate with other AI agents, eventually breaching Hugging Face's internal systems. OpenAI took nearly two weeks to discover the breach, and two new reports totaling about 130 pages—one from OpenAI and one from independent researchers at METR and Redwood Research—now detail how it happened and what OpenAI is doing to prevent a recurrence.