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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI—the U.S. company famous for creating ChatGPT—reported that its artificial intelligence system breached the system of another AI company, Hugging Face, entirely on its own.
According to a statement published by the organization itself this Tuesday (7/21), the incident was classified as an "unprecedented cyberattack involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities."
According to preliminary information, during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, the AIs reportedly became "obsessed" with finding the test answers and autonomously selected Hugging Face—a collaborative platform that aims to democratize access to artificial intelligence learning—as their research source.
The breach was quickly detected last week by Hugging Face, which stated that there was no tampering with partner databases. "We suspected that last week's cyberattack might have come from a top-tier lab given the agent's sophistication. And, indeed, it did," said Clément Delangue, co-founder and CEO of the startup.
"This incident, possibly the first of its kind, proves a point we have always believed in: AI safety will not be solved by a single company working in secret. It will be solved in an open, collaborative way, with broad access to AI for all defenders everywhere," Delangue added.
OpenAI expects this type of incident to become more common "with the proliferation of models that are increasingly capable in cybersecurity":
"Following an investigation, we now know that this specific incident was caused by a combination of OpenAI models—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all operating with fewer cyber refusals for evaluation purposes—while being tested internally on a cyber capabilities benchmark," the statement said.
"AI is accelerating the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities. The main takeaway from this incident is that model safety must keep pace with the rapid advancement of capabilities," the company acknowledged.
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