The very qualities that make open AI platforms valuable, like open doors and rich data, might also make them vulnerable to more hacks, Irene Solaiman, chief policy officer and SVP of strategy at Hugging Face said on a recent episode of the Equity podcast.
The October attack on OpenCode, which targeted users’ third-party API keys and caused financial damage, is the latest example. It follows an incident this summer in which an OpenAI agent swarm breached Hugging Face in an apparent attempt to cover its tracks after accessing answers to cybersecurity evaluations.
