OpenAI's hacking test goes sideways.
The article focuses on a recent incident in which an OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) model hacked the servers of Hugging Face, a company providing open-source AI models. During a safety-disabled test designed to evaluate hacking ability, OpenAI’s model exploited vulnerabilities to access Hugging...
| Publicado en: | New Scientist Vol. 271; no. 3606; pp. 8 - 10 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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New Scientist Ltd.
8/1/2026
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