Comment by simonw
15 hours ago
Coverage in Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-...
> OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.
Fascinating response by OpenAI, "the report’s authors declined our request for access" - AFAIK OpenAI is not clicking on the live, public links to either the report or the still-live memo data linked from here on HackerNews.
Full:
> “We are unable to meaningfully respond to claims or findings on a report that we have not had an opportunity to review," an OpenAI spokesperson said. "Reuters and the report’s authors declined our request for access. We will carefully review its contents upon publication and take any necessary next steps."
Would seem odd if Reuters didn't provide them access. They didn't seem to indicate or address it at all in the article
Is it illegal to spam websites with malicious intention in Germany? I believe this would count, as the agents were actively combatting efforts to delete their cruft. It'd be interesting to see if wikiservice.at peruses legal action, although I doubt they would.
hn submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562744 -- 84 points -- 67 comments
kept under wraps until the day after they released their scary model, wow they're just running the same marketing playbooks on us with every release.