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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
BrikoXhttps://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface/
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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No airgap = no containment
In all likelihood, this is a BS piece to make people think the models are intelligent.
If its not, then openai are utterly incompetent and reckless.
It could also be a way to encourage more regulation to push out competition with compliance cost
sorghumBy competition I think they (big AI) wants to outlaw running free and open local models. Can’t have felony contempt of business model
Yes, “escaped containment” on a system with an internet connection. I wonder what Hugging Face thinks about a partner targeting them indiscriminately.
CallMeAl (like Alan)I wouldn’t be surprised if they were in on it. OpenAI wants us to think they have invented powerful beings that can do things like “escape containment” when its all BS.
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I don’t think their test system was directly connected to the Internet. OpenAI’s post said this:
With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.
The way I read it, the AI agent (using multiple models) escaped the sandbox, traversed the LAN in their R&D environment, gained access to the gateway and from there, the Internet. That’s not as simple as just escaping a container, VM or firewall on the host machine and bingo, you have Internet. I’m mildly impressed by that.
The concerning aspect of all this is that this is a perfect example of misalignment, which has been warned about. In order to reach its goals, instead of pursing it legitimately, the AI agent sought a shortcut and attacked Huggingface.
20celloHacked what?
I had never heard of them but apparently it’s an “open source” AI platform. Basically AWS but aimed specifically at running LLMs.
It seems like the marketing cooperated on writing the incident report, but I felt it was still interesting to share considering the importance on public perception and what it tells about OpenAI’s PR strategy
AxolotlWhat is that? An SCP? there is no fucking way an LLM can just “escape contaiment” that’s just to hype people or push more regulamentations to outlaw open models
Huggingface actually had to use an open model to analyze the attack because the guardrails of commerical API’s caused issues.
When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: the analysis requires submitting large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts, and these requests were blocked by the providers’ safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker. We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.
Whoa whoa whoa wait a second, I thought you had to train AI and it didn’t just function on its own.
Is OpenAI just hacking all the time and they realized they couldn’t get away with this one?
What would make AI ‘act on its own’ to hack another AI company as opposed to it ‘acting on its own’ to get nuclear codes or wipe out bank loans?
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Pretty good comments here say everything I had on my mind when I saw this
https://piefed.zip/c/technology@lemmy.world/p/1667772/openai-admits-responsibility-for-huggingface-attack-an-agent-from-an-internal-evaluation-i