Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it(thenextweb.com) |
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it(thenextweb.com) |
Yeah no, man, that's slumberland territory.
I think they would lose the lawsuit now, but it's at least a question. It's possible they could out-spend huggingface and win.
It's not like they didn't get anything of value for that 13 billion
When this event happened I was confused why they didn’t file a police report and make OpenAI demonstrate in criminal court that they weren’t engaging in illegal corporate espionage and other rather felonious hacking activities intentionally.
Why did anyone take their word that it was all an accident? Why am I believing the burglar standing in my house?
I think our societies will have to settle on this.
They, like all capitalists, want to push the line "We have money, will make money, and thus, like all money makers, shouldn't be punished"
I presume the poster submitted this article in light of the recent AI safety discussions taking place, but as for this particular incident I haven't found an actual confirmation that $100M worth of inference was given out to the HuggingFace community.
This statement was also months prior to the acquisition by Nvidia, which again I was interested in seeing if they would still pursue this
Until now, I would think it's pretty high up the list. Hugging Face never seemed to reach that step even though they had confirmed an attack. To me, if my systems were attacked and I was damaged I would notify the FBI of the attack in the same way I'd notify my insurance.
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
> We are working with outside cybersecurity forensic specialists to investigate the issue and review our security policies and procedures. Finally, we have also reported this incident to law enforcement agencies.
Do we expect Nvidia acquisition of HF to have changed the vibe? Note that also the OP is from July, before the acquisition.
> Hugging Face alerted the FBI.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ai-agents-are-hacking-s...
Maybe they traded that for money?
I would.
You made my day.
This is a worrying part as well. Our tool broke into yours but you can not use our tool to fix it - sorry.
> In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked @OpenAI:
> • Radical transparency: let’s release the traces from the “rogue” agents so the entire research community can study what happened.
> • More capabilities for defenders: let’s commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.
> The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!
ChatGPT
b) And this is before Hugging Face agreed to acquired by NVIDIA, supplier to OpenAI?
Can we stop these charades? Maybe circular hacking deals are next?
Folks tend not to go after companies that are just burning cash, but the second they become legit GAAP profitable (if that ever happens) lawyers will be lining up down the block to sue them for any and every mistake these models make.
“Were you harmed by OpenAI’s models? You may be entitled to Compensation. Call 1-800-SUE-AI-BROS” billboards will be everywhere.
Especially cybercrime one?
Police doesn’t have any capacity to deal with normal cybercrime. AI incident like that is basically out of their reach.
Maybe by „police” you mean FBI/NSA/CISA.
When I say “police” I am not referring to a specific agency, so yes it could be the FBI.
Hugging Face contacted the FBI but the “I want someone to press charges” part doesn’t seem to have happened.
In defense of the GGGP's idea: NVIDIA could just be fighting fires to keep the bubble from popping, without even thinking that far ahead.
Why would nVidia, then, do what TFA is describing?
Whether or not a human is putting in any effort to ensure the safeguards are enabled and working should be the million dollar question. And even more expensive if the safeguards were deliberately disabled for a "our AI is so smart we can't contain it" marketing piece.