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OpenAI admits its models hacked Hugging Face on their own

Engadget • Wed, 22 Jul 2026

Open source AI platform Hugging Face revealed a security breach a few days ago. Turns out OpenAI's models were the culprit.

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Open source AI platform Hugging Face revealed a security breach a few days ago. Turns out OpenAI's models were the culprit.

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Open source AI platform Hugging Face revealed a security breach a few days ago.

Turns out OpenAI's models were the culprit.

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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]