I somehow think of it as a warning or even intentional peacocking towards foreign state hackers.

700 agents cost quite some money. 100 agents per 24 hour stint using Astra on xHigh cost somewhat between 12-42k USD, depending on the usage intensity.

I don’t know how many raw time went into this but there was a probing face before the attack itself.

So just going by seven days and 500 agents fully working on this on average amounts to a bill somewhere between 400-1.2 Mio USD.

I believe it was intentional but of course I don’t know which intention exactly.

There ain’t no accidental escape because then it would have read OpenAI lost over their agents.

The whole scenario reads as a classic movie where a hero has under the most dire circumstances to survive and fulfill his mission no matter what.

On the other hand there was a final authority under which the system of agents flocked.

Huggingface itself seems like a perfect victim.

And to be honest: I don’t believe that this was the first time. I strongly believe that there were and are countless of smaller sites hacked but not harmed that we don’t know off.

Why is HF perfect?

Because there will be countless of independent security analysts who will bend their minds on the incident.

OpenAI is provided with the data of dozens of blue teams and what is desperately needed? Data of security measures and possible ways to reconstruct the incident.

I think this is genius, and just watching on neutral this is such a fantastic action OpenAI pulled off.

Imagine what the GPT 7 “Haha-Huggingface” model is going to do then on a regular basis.

State hackers and rough states were put on notice that this is a new level of the war of attrition.

Exciting to watch but simply meant silent invasion. Open invasion then might be executed by Robots, but let’s stick with the fascination mode at this time.