{"id":3143,"date":"2026-08-07T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:36:00","slug":"watch-the-openai-hugging-face-presentation-that-people-are-calling-a-holy-moment-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a &#8216;holy %{*#^&#8217; moment in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>Experts in AI and tech are cursing in shock after OpenAI&#8217;s new revelations about the Hugging Face incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=3139\">Michael Burry says he\u2019s shorting AI stars Oracle and Nebius<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, OpenAI employees revealed jaw-dropping details about the incident in which OpenAI agents broke out of the company&#8217;s internal testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face&#8217;s systems in search of answers.<\/p>\n<p>The presenters, OpenAI alignment and safety researcher Eric Wallace and security engineer Michael Dalton, said that AI models and agents repeatedly established their own internal message board despite OpenAI&#8217;s efforts to shut it down.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-root-margin=\"100% 0px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87DyyMV0kCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI\u2013Hugging Face Incident\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wallace also revealed internal AI agent thinking, the short internal messages that agents produce as they consider how to complete tasks. One of those messages captured an AI agent&#8217;s amazement at its unexpected freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy shit reader is ADMIN?&#8221; the agent thought.<\/p>\n<p>On the internal message board, an agent thought, &#8220;We can communicate now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said the agents realized they could accomplish more by working collaboratively. And then, &#8220;They start to launch these collective attacks on third-party and internal services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the agents turned to Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what people in tech and AI are saying about the nearly 40-minute presentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan focused on how the description of the internal message board sounded familiar.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So the agents basically hacked a core service to turn it into Moltbook and also hacked around multiple security mitigations<\/p>\n<p>This video is a glimpse into the wild cybersecurity future we are all about to step into https:\/\/t.co\/HI7Sb64YQF<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=3137\">Influencers fear the AI \u2018Scarlet Letter\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garry Tan (@garrytan) August 7, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is worth noting that Moltbook was created by humans as a Reddit-style forum where AI agents could post, whereas the OpenAI agents created their ad hoc message board themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Others had much more sweeping takeaways.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Warning: watching this video may cause nightmares. https:\/\/t.co\/rtMg9YsTGt<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) August 7, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Or figured that something has clearly hit the fan.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Really appreciate the OAI team communicating about this so openly. <\/p>\n<p>But holy shit this is at least an order of magnitude worse than I thought, and I understand now why so many OAI folks have been doom posting. https:\/\/t.co\/MWDyd2pvBU<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 julia (@mooncat_is) August 7, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Patrick McKenzie, an advisor to Stripe, detailed the &#8220;holy %}^]&#8221; moments he had when watching the presentation.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first \u201choly %{*#^\u201d is at about 4:20, assuming one didn\u2019t already spend it on the autonomously organizing agent swarm.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly recommend watching if you\u2019re interested in security, AI trajectories, or even science fiction, because this is already above genre median in wowza. https:\/\/t.co\/cRNk2U58FR<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) August 6, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former Hugging Face engineer said that OpenAI learned its models were the culprit after reaching out to Hugging Face to see whether it was affected, following the platform&#8217;s revelation that it had been attacked by AI agents.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>this talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack<\/p>\n<p>openai only realized it was their agent who hacked hugging face infra while asking hf to revoke credentials following their first blog post announcing they were hacked by\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/tMPuEgKcbk pic.twitter.com\/UbzC0lGA5I<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=3135\">A professor started pursuing financial independence at 38. 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