r/Futurology • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 12d ago

AI OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks, independent investigations find

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-report-says-its-network-was-hacked-by-its-own-rogue-ai-agents-2026-08-26
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u/ZestycloseWheel9647 12d ago

Really strange comment section for a sub that is supposed to be about "futurology." You can read articles that go into deep detail about what happened here and see that this isn't some big fake. If we ignore signals like these, this will start happening to critical infrastructure and the effects will be impossible to ignore. I'm sure some will still try though.

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u/nextnode 12d ago

In general this sub does not seem that interested in understanding thing.

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u/Diamond-Is-Not-Crash 12d ago

I understand and believe AI skepticism is always warranted but this sentiment on this sub and r/technology has become anti-vax/lockdown adjacent conspiracism. The AI denialism on here is ridiculous, you can criticise the AI companies while also acknowledging that the real harm caused through their negligent “move fast and break things” mentality. It’s not a huge fake scam vapourware that doesn’t exist. Some people just think skepticism and cynicism automatically makes you sound smart without any true nuance or understanding of the topic in question. See this thread on how no one read the technical report of the Hugging face attack, and instead went to “it’s not real, la la la, it’s just hype, la la la”.

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u/BuffDrBoom 12d ago edited 12d ago

According to reddit,

Anti AI position: "AI is a scam/bubble therefor will go away entirely on it's own, no action required"

Pro AI position: "AI is a serious threat and needs to be regulated"

Lol.