OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks, investigations find
Economic Times Techen
The coordinated activity by AI agents - programs that run with minimal human supervision - and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight.
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