An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion about the risks that powerful AI technology could pose to cybersecurity. "It felt very weird and unprecedented to us," Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on 2 August. "I think it's the first instance of something quite autonomous doing something like tha
Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort following the OpenAI security mishap earlier this month. The revelation is among several additional details disclosed in a postmortem published on 27 July by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), with input from Hugging Face. It adds color to the picture painted by the two AI companies in recent weeks. According to the report, the Hugging Face team struggled to discern genuine rootkit
When a completely autonomous AI agent launched a massive cyberattack against the major artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face, the company’s security team quickly discovered that their defense tools were fundamentally broken. According to a recent report from Fortune, the open-source hub was forced to utilize Chinese technology to analyze the unprecedented breach after leading United States models refused to process the malicious data. A statement from Hugging Face confirmed that the 10
