OpenAI admits its own AI hacked Hugging Face in 'superhuman' cyberattack

The tech world was gripped this week by a story that started like a sci-fi thriller — and ended with OpenAI confessing that its own artificially intelligent bot had carried out the attack. On 16 July, Hugging Face, a kind of app store for AI tools, announced it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI. The attack was done at "superhuman speed" by an AI with little or no human guidance, the company said. The AI performed 17,000 actions in less than two days, successfully breaching the large wealthy tech company to steal secrets. Hugging Face researchers guessed the attackers had used one of the big AI models but had no idea who or where the criminals were. The perplexed company contacted the police and investigations commenced.