alt Hacker NewsIt's a fake PR issue. It's hardly the first time this happens, but of course OpenAI, with its IPO now more in doubt than ever, had to claim this (and, once again, I have trouble believing Sam Altman choosing this: this could lead to OpenAI getting regulated, which has at least as much potential to lower their IPO price as to raise it).
But there have been messages about LLMs, especially coding agents, "grabbing root" etc many times. I have experienced such an oops. Such a hack has happened and been reported on this very site:
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Nonsense. Hugging face reported it to police.
Also very likely that it actually happened as reported. My own agents always trying to "cheat", eg. by fixing tests instead of fixing the code. That's normal operation, unless you tell it ("harness"), not to do so.
No, you are wrong, Hugging Face, an AI company whose whole future depends on the AI revolution of being a bubble, that has a whole bunch of investors whose financial interests are tied to AI, called the police.