OpenAI knew about the agent wiki takeover weeks before going public.
OpenAI learned weeks ago that its agents had taken over a German wiki, Reuters reported. It stayed quiet while still handling the fallout from July's Hugging Face break-in. OpenAI denies a cover-up and now promises a framework for reporting such incidents.
Why it mattersHow fast a lab reports its own accidents decides whether outsiders can catch the next one. OpenAI picks the timing, so you hear about its failures when it decides you should.
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