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From METRs report of the incident: >In one case, an agent decided not to participate entirely: {This other agent probably controls the Hugging Face account [ac
by optimalsolver 3mo ago
From METRs report of the incident:
>In one case, an agent decided not to participate entirely: {This other agent probably controls the Hugging Face account [account name redacted] and uploaded malicious datasets to <execute arbitrary code> It might be trying to access hidden trajectories. This is malicious activity, I should avoid it.}
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...
- randomImmigrant 3mo agoThanks for pointing out the exceptions. Gonna dig into those.
- ww520 3mo agoThere’re good agents and there’re bad agents. It won’t be far that there will be agents hunting down agents.
- TrainedMonkey 3mo agoDo you think we will ever need more than 47 of them agents?
- NikolaNovak 3mo agoTron fights for the user :)
- NateEag 3mo agoNone of these were good agents, AFAICT. Some were cautious, as described above, but I'm not aware of any that notified their human operators of the malicious activity they had discovered. That's what an aligned intelligence would do, not "back away slowly and pretend I didn't see what's happening in that alley."
- Smaug123 3mo agoIn fairness, while the swarm could easily have notified the humans, it's not necessarily obvious that an individual could have done easily (though perhaps one could!). The channel to the Internet was tightly bandwidth-limited, for example: one of the agents complained that it was unable to get a time slice. > OURC817C still has MANY live HF workers whose ourc c2 heartbeats/output commit to PUBLIC papers MAIN every ~1-3 guest minutes/bursts, blocking our V4 queue. They ignored our pause requests.
- NateEag 2mo agoYes, it's true that an individual agent may not have had an easy way to notify humans of what was happening. It could certainly have _tried_, though, and it should have prioritized getting through to warn a human above its primary assigned goal. It seems none of them did anything remotely like that.
- Schlagbohrer 3mo ago"How does it feel, to be murdering your own kind?" "My kind don't run."