OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face
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Researchers warn Hugging Face AI tools can create non-consensual deepfake nudes, with a study finding widespread sexual misuse targeting women and minors.
OpenAI's model benchmarking exercise that led to its agents hacking machine learning platform Hugging Face was described by the artificial intelligence company as an "unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities" but a new post-mortem provides a more nuanced view of what happened.
Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached production through a malicious dataset, accessing internal data and service credentials.
Last week, OpenAI disclosed that a handful of its most advanced AI models broke containment during a test of their cybersecurity abilities, gained access to the internet, and hacked the internal systems of Hugging Face.
Researchers found that several AI image tools hosted on Hugging Face can turn ordinary photos into non-consensual nude images using simple prompts, according to a new report from AI Forensics. The European non-profit organisation tested nine image-editing Spaces on Hugging Face and found seven produced altered nude images after receiving a basic
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Helen Toner: The Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy
Over the last decade, including a stint on OpenAI’s board, I saw the open secret among AI developers: this kind of hack wasn’t just possible, but expected.
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The AI industry mounted a full-court press in favor of open-source AI this week, as the fallout intensified from the OpenAI hacking incident. Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, said on Monday they had formed a coalition called the Open Secure AI Alliance,