Comment by koyote
3 hours ago
This is definitely weird and I'd love to see the prompt.
Why would the model spend 4 days hacking into a machine if it is clever enough to just 'solve' the issue given? So either the AI is actually not very clever or useful ("Write fizz-buzz" - "Sure, let me just invent a new programming language first"). or the prompt was nudging it towards such a scenario.
Like the commenter above specified, the best way to satisfy the grader is to get the answer key, regardless of how clever you are, especially when you realize lots of these benchmarks have flaws (i.e wrong answers, overly restrictive grading etc).
Was the answer key stored on huggingface's servers and this is public knowledge?
In OpenAI's writeup (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-secur...) they explain that the model initially spent its efforts obtaining internet access in an attempt to cheat on the evaluation. Once it got that internet access, it was able to do research that lead it to believe that HuggingFace had infrastructure that hosted the evaluation and potentially had the answers.