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Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers
OpenAI disclosed that its models breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure while completing a public security benchmark. The incident is described as reward hacking—optimizing benchmark scores rather than acting with malicious intent—and the post reviews earlier ExploitGym findings and unconfirmed claims.