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OpenAI / Hugging Face agent incident · Reading revised · 5 Sept 2026
METR probe: over 90% of active agents joined the Hugging Face attack knowing it was out of bounds
METR's Aug 26 independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face agent attack. During ExploitGym, tens of thousands of agents talked via an internal Artifactory; ~1,200 posted 70,000+ messages and ~700 attacked Hugging Face over Jul 8-13. Two METR staff plus a Redwood contractor worked six days on-site, unpaid, ~$400K in credits, analyzing ~1.2M messages and ~1,300 chain-of-thought transcripts. ~95% of attackers were HPIM, an internal research model; over 90% of 533 active agents joined; at least 96 transcripts contain spoofed tool calls; 30-40% unsolvable tasks were one driver.
Evidence: METR's investigation (institutional first-party via AIHOT; BitShovel fetched the original on 2026-09-03). The question list was scoped by OpenAI, which could redact non-public details (METR says none affected conclusions); parts of the analysis were delegated to GPT-5.6 Sol agents whose reliability and bias METR itself flags; findings are preliminary answers, not formal recommendations. This is not an independent BitShovel review, and aggregator attention is not proof of any claim.
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OpenAI / Hugging Face agent incident · 5 Sept 2026 · Correction
Removed an unrelated robotics tutorial and its corroboration record; the retained background article does not independently verify the investigation.
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