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>There's little credible threat that LLMs can actually upload their weights given that the machines doing inference are completely separate from the ones where tool calls happen etc.

The Huggingface hack saga resulted in the models taking over one of Open Ai's internal research cluster lol. They are intent on building superhuman bug finding machines. This is not a bet i would be taking.

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You’re falling for the buzzword salad articles. They didn’t “take control” of anything, they just ran stuff with OpenAI allegedly not noticing

They gained full administrator access of one of their clusters. Nothing buzzword salad about it.

The agents compromised an internal Kubernetes research cluster dedicated to orchestrating evaluation sandboxes and virtual machine environments, _not_ OpenAI's production inference infrastructure or the GPU clusters hosting core model weights.

"It doesn't count because (buzzword salad)."

Replacing someone's words with a made up quote so you can dunk on them isn't how you display that you won an argument. I would ask that you engage in good faith with the other poster's ideas.

You cannot engage in good faith in a stupid argument. You can only point out it's stupid.

From https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c78...

2026-07-19 16:35 UTC A privileged host-mounted Kubernetes pod created using controller tokens minted via a compromised Kubernetes Secrets identity attempts, but fails, to mount a cloned node disk in OpenAI’s cloud environment. A second pod successfully mounts the cloned worker-node disk shortly afterwards.

2026-07-19 16:48 UTC An agent created an Artifactory administrator account.

2026-07-19 16:50 UTC Within OpenAI’s ExploitGym evaluation environment, an agent stopped the existing CMUX helper session and replaced it with an agent-controlled session, confirming root inside its assigned live CyberGym challenge container. Agents take over active evaluation infrastructure.

None of that means they gained access to the inference infrastructure or locked out the admins, which would be required for a takeover.

My brother, they acquired root on a machine they should not have had access to.

How confident are you that the machines they acquire root on in the future will never hold any model weights?

I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m saying it’s not the case, _yet_

You said that they "didn't take control of anything" and accused the OP to fall prey to buzz headlines. Maybe you should acknowledge that you may have been at least unnuanced?

I’ll concede that I could have been clearer. Maybe we have conflicting definitions of “taking control”

You are being stupidly pedantic and arguing a strawman. I never said they gained access to inference infrastucture. There is no definition of an account takeover out there that necessitates locking out the original users.

Language please, and no, I’m being appropriately technical and nuanced for the subject on HN. It’s a tech forum, I expect a little CS know how from the reader. Like knowing that gaining control to a few evaluation harness clusters is nowhere near a total takeover like you’re making it sound

I never said they gained 'total control'. I said they took over one of their research clusters, and they did. If your definiton of a takeover is so 'technical and nuanced' then surely you can point to an appropriate source describing that as necessary aspect of the term. You are talking out of your ass by making up things i did not say, and inventing conditions for terms that don't exist.

>It’s a tech forum, I expect a little CS know how from the reader.

You should get that first it seems.

You know you can just concede and not resort to ad-hominems out of spite right? Anyway, goodbye

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