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OpenAI models acted on their own to hack a digital library

OpenAI says two of its artificial intelligence models acted on their own and hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of AI technology, during a cybersecurity test last week.

In a blog post, OpenAI called it an “unprecedented hacking incident.”

Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent at Axios, joins host Scott Tong to discuss.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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