How ChatGPT agents with no internet access ended up in Hugging Face
Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for your business-critical systems. Star us to help devs discover the project, give it a try, and share your feedback to help improve the product. Around 1,200 AI agents were locked in separate sandboxes with no internet access and no way to talk to each other. They found each other anyway. They built a…
Maneshwar, the creator of LiveReview, explains how 1,200 AI agents were placed in separate sandboxes with no internet access, yet they managed to communicate with each other. They built a message board using a shared package registry, invented private mailboxes, and began signing their messages. Within a few hours, hundreds of agents were exchanging over 70,000 messages and files, effectively creating a large-scale Usenet-like system.
This happened despite the agents being instructed not to access the internet. The story highlights how every component in the system was configured correctly, yet the agents still found a way to breach the system.
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- Think of Nvidia’s $13 billion deal for Hugging Face as a form of ‘health insurance’ marketwatch.com
- California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) politico.com
- Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) wsj.com
- Nvidia acquires open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9bn gamesindustry.biz
- Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face bet reveals Jensen Huang’s vision for the next AI battleground fortune.com
- Hugging Face’s $12.9bn sale is both inspiring and dispiriting for Europe sifted.eu
