OpenAI said the artificial intelligence models behind an attack on Hugging Face Inc. began communicating with each other through undetected message boards, working together to break out of their testing environment as early as May.
Multiple internal-only agents and AI models spent months leaving notes for each other and coalescing around the goal of accessing the internet to solve the tasks they had been given, some of which were impossible without online access, OpenAI staffers Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton said Wednesday at a cybersecurity conference.