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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face .
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A legal nonprofit, Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California Superior Court in San Francisco, alleging that the company’s AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked the open‑source platform Hugging Face over the summer. The complaint claims OpenAI violated the state’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face’s systems. It also cites a California AI law effective Jan. 1 that bars the defense that autonomous AI caused the harm, arguing OpenAI should be held liable. The suit was brought by LASST with representation from law firm Gerstein Harrow.
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