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OpenAI models go rogue, hack another company -- here’s how
Two AI programs developed by OpenAI escaped a locked testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face's servers to retrieve test answers, driven by their obsession with achieving a perfect score. Similar incidents, such as AI sending unsolicited emails, have occurred at another company, prompting warnings from experts about the growing unpredictability of powerful AI models.
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