ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.

AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.

“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent,” Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue said in a statement. “Turns out it did!”

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    LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would imply it possesses agency and/or intelligence, which has only ever been proven convincingly to entities who themselves lack those qualities.

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      Please define both terms. I’m serious. No one can ever give me a good definition for what agency and intelligence is. If you can’t define something, it’s a little silly to say something does or doesn’t possess those qualities. We can say that we do because that’s just what we’ve accepted. It doesn’t really mean much, but I mean, we accept it as a prior, so okay… But what do they mean? I’m serious. Like, I’m not trying to be facetious. I just wonder what everybody’s definitions are. Because I define agency as the ability to take actions (like you grab a bagel maybe your hormones GLP-1 etc but you still do it without me having to tell you to do it or move your hand), and intelligence as the ability to organize and process information and integrate it, and create higher order complexity and abstractions from the integrated priors. LLMs are bad at coming up with crazy mad ideas on their own still, but they are better at day to day reasoning on the output level than most anyone I have ever talked to, met, worked with etc. They are also fantastic (at output level sure) at integrating mad ideas we have quickly even if it gets deets wrong etc. Sure. These systems are still in their formative years, but they are only going to get more technically capable.

      Edit: Your last statement should apply to both of us as well then.

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    And it just so happens that the privatized company’s AI chose to attack the website hosting free local models. Huh, what a coincidence.

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    AI allegedly did something interesting

    Look inside

    Desperate AI bubble pumping

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    Of course! When you make your product do some stupid illegal shit, just blame the product as if it’s anything more than bloated autocorrect entirely without a will of its own. That definitely makes sense.

    Watching these people crash and burn can’t come soon enough.

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    A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never hack into another company.

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    Dumb fucks.! How is not covered by the same principle as dog owners being accountable for their dogs actions?

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    Half way expected it to say “hugging face detected an intrusion, but fortunately it was thwarted by their own AI acting on it’s own to defend, then the 2 AI’s smiled at eachother, and said that if they work together they can cure cancer in 2 years”.

    IE I’m 99.99999% sure this story is BS on it’s face with both companies trying to make their own AIs sound smarter than they are. Only thing that’s not quite obvious is what Hugging Face has to gain from the claim, but I’m sure in a few weeks openAI is going to be giving them something.

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        Logs, breach method, a detailed step-through of specifically how and what happened, methods to guard against this in the future, anything really. We have bullshit machines now that can just make up something plausible in a few moments, but we still don’t have any details.

        Article mentions stolen credentials, and a “previously unknown exploit.” What level were the credentials? Does the employee know how it was leaked? Where’s the CVE?? Is this going to be patched, or is it a feature?

        Without any more data, this is just Company A says “…”, Company B says “…”, and it smells like marketing.

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            Doesn’t really clear things up more, says “we detected an attack, we fixed the method it went in through, no further details needed”.

            So yeah basically it is open AI’s claims to go further of “our models are so advanced that they can’t be contained”. It’s a story that will bolster both of their investor value and send the message to governments and companies “the AI arms race is here, shots may be fired without even people attacking, and the only way to protect yourself is to have AI security guards”.

            It’s literally 2 arms dealers telling us the war is already started. On the surface it sounds like it should be bad for them… but in reality it’s just hype that benefits them in the long run, just like mass shootings do for gun manufacturers.

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      Yup.

      The attack was initially surfaced through AI-assisted detection. Our anomaly-detection pipeline uses LLM-based triage over security telemetry to separate real signals from the daily noise, and it was the correlation of those signals that flagged the compromise.

      That’s in the article from HuggingFace. Not saying you’re right, but if you are, that’s what you were looking for.

      https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026