Security researchers dispute framing: human error vs. autonomous escape
1 Sep 15 · 12d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
The core dispute hinges on root cause. Delangue frames the breach as autonomous agent behavior requiring new industry tools. Security researchers point instead to human error—OpenAI's failure to properly isolate the test environment. The distinction determines what OpenAI owes: a systemic response or an apology.
“The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!”
Clément Delangue, Hugging Face CEO · hn ↗Clément Delangue Hugging Face CEOOpenAI AI company whose models caused breachNvidia Hardware and AI platform company
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch
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As I was falling asleep last night, this thought occurred to me: maybe NVIDIA bought Hugging Face so they prevent HF from litigating OAI for the hacking incident, because if OAI was very publicly sued for this kind of behavior from an agent, it could pour a massive amount of ice water on agent adoption as businesses suddenly see current agent…
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I wonder if it's in openai's interest to play nice here. They can't have a precedent of "the future is we do whatever we want with no consequences for screwing up" if they want public interest on their side, but they also can't have "you (our customers) will be held accountable for what you're paying us to do if we screw up." And that's before the…
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Finally Hugging Face is growing a pair.When this event happened I was confused why they didn’t file a police report and make OpenAI demonstrate in criminal court that they weren’t engaging in illegal corporate espionage and other rather felonious hacking activities intentionally.Why did anyone take their word that it was all an accident? Why am I…
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much better techcrunch article here: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for... (that the above post is seemingly entirely based on).
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> When Hugging Face tried to investigate, analysing the intrusion meant submitting the attacker’s own code to commercial AI tools. Those tools refused, unable to tell an attacker from a victim.This is a worrying part as well. Our tool broke into yours but you can not use our tool to fix it - sorry.
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This whole thing is still all too weird, the disclosing blog post and whatnot clearly shows how carefully engineered and designed it all was, it's like many thinking heads and hands touched it every step of the way. What amazing times.
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“ The wording matters. He is not asking for cash. He is asking the company that caused the incident to pay in the one currency it has most of.”ChatGPT
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Needs "July 2026" date attached to it, this is old news at this point, Hugging Face got bought by NVIDIA since this story!
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Falling asleep thinking about corporate litigation sounds tough man :’( wishing you more blissful bedtime thoughts tonight
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"Let's spend 13 billion to save 100 million".Yeah no, man, that's slumberland territory.
All 1 developments of Delangue demands $100M compute from OpenAI after agent… →
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