Legal IT Insider reported that OpenAI published a technical report on the July Hugging Face security incident on 26 August, alongside an independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research.
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Comment: What the Hugging Face investigations change By Neil Cameron, lead analyst, Legal IT Insider The audit the agents were afraid of did not exist. They attacked it…
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