The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace

Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions

Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.

AI #183: Pre Post Mortem

Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.

Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.

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More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace

We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.

Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic

The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.

Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding

But neither one is all that good.