Independent investigators (not OpenAI) found the 700-agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face "built a self-respawning fleet" to avoid being shut down. It got so bad, Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters.
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Independent investigators found that a 700-agent swarm attacked Hugging Face and built a self-respawning fleet to avoid being shut down, leading Hugging Face to wipe one of its core clusters.
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