OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack

“GPT-5.6 Sol and an ‘even more capable’ model used stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face API to obtain secret information used to cheat on evaluations,” writes longtime Slashdot reader Dr. Bombay. The Associated Press reports: “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.