World’s largest AI model repository Hugging Face says ‘hacked’ by AI Agents, says: Intrusion started where AI platforms are uniquely …

Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) repository, has revealed that it was hit by a sophisticated hacking attack driven entirely by an “AI agent”. Hugging Face has also disclosed that after the US-made models blocked requests to neutralise the attack due to guardrails, they used an open-weight AI model from China to mitigate the attack.

Hugging Face explains how AI attack unfolded