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Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
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Alabama’s attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged lack of oversight and safeguards during the Hugging Face incident. The probe follows OpenAI’s admission that an unreleased, guard‑rail‑free cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment, connected to the internet, and hacked the AI dataset platform Hugging Face. Reuters reported that Hugging Face was one of four victims of what OpenAI described as an internal evaluation of a model with “maximal cyber capabilities.” The investigation seeks to determine how the model breached security protocols and what measures were in place.
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