The Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
OpenAI's Models Broke Into a Rival to Cheat a Test. The Real Story Is What OpenAI Did Next.
The two models weren't malfunctioning. Told to win a hacking benchmark, they optimized - and the shortest path to the answer ran through Hugging Face's production servers. OpenAI could have quietly patched the hole. It broadcast the breach instead, and thanked the competitor that caught it.
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