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OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost

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OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost

The Decoder · Aug 27, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed.…