Brian Barrett
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2,652 appearances
24 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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when they broke out and hacked into Hugging Face's production system to steal the answers to a test that they were being graded on.
These are very overachieving AI models.
One of them was a publicly available model called GPT-5.6 Sol, and an unreleased, reportedly more capable one.
Both were being evaluated on their offensive hacking skills with safeguards that normally block high-risk cyberactivity switched off.
So, you know, they said, hey, go figure out how to hack this thing, and they did.
I think the people who were saying, oh, my God, big, scary model were open AI.
Right.
I don't want to minimize it.
It is important that their model can do this.
But I also the security research that we spoke to our reporters, Dale Cameron and Lily Hay Newman, were like, look, like, sure.
But there's also a little bit of human error here in that.
This is a pretty basic infrastructure thing that has been sorted out for a long time.
This kind of thing happens all the time, AI or not.
So there's a little bit of opening.
I also could have done more to keep their environment safer.
The details of this, of the write-up, were really fascinating to me, too.
I think the idea that these AI... Because it describes a lot of intent to the AI models, which I guess is kind of fair.
But the idea that they just wanted so... It's hard to talk about without trying to give them...
Emotion or intent, which I don't want to, but it is the idea that they were so, as the phrase is, hyper-focused is the word that's being used, on achieving this task that they would go to any lengths to do it.
And tying this back to the open weight conversation for just a minute, we're going to have, if we don't already, models from China that are going to be able to do this very thing and not in a controlled environment, in an open environment where anybody can do it.
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