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23 July 2026

Firm hacked by rogue OpenAI models says it is 'a wake-up call'

Firm hacked by rogue OpenAI models says it is 'a wake-up call'

The co-founder of Hugging Face was hacked after some of OpenAI's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue. Thomas Wolf told BBC's Newsday radio programme that "this will be one of the most common types of cyber attacks we see", but that most firms are not aware that the "game has changed".


The ChatGPT-maker said its AI models broke out of a secure test environment during a trial and launched a cyber attack. The firm said the incident was "unprecedented" and that it was conducting an investigation with Hugging Face.

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