I would say, incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face when there was an attack on their infrastructure
Hugging Face
Hub for open models, datasets and demos, with libraries for pulling them into your own code.
first seen 12 Jun 2026
17mentions
9creators
100%organic
Who actually uses Hugging Face
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The receipts
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Then: Hugging Face got hacked. By a rogue AI agent.
Hugging Face reveals what happened
OpenAI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face
After OpenAI announced their models hacked Hugging Face
compromised Hugging Face's production database
found things that could exploit in Hugging Face and did...
Last week Hugging Face was hacked.
GPT-6 managed to pwn Hugging Face.
An unreleased internal OpenAI model, very likely to be called GPT-6, was able to autonomously break out of its sandbox A
HuggingFace's writeup of the incident
Right now, the Hugging Face Hub hosts over half a million pre-trained AI models.
OpenAI and Hugging Face
Hugging Face currently hosts over 100,000 open-source datasets
how to create storage buckets and repositories on Hugging Face.
getting started with Hugging Face
Step 4: Hugging Face Image Model Integration
using Gradio for the various chat/instruct large language models from HuggingFace
Is there a newer or better tool?
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FAQ
Do creators actually use Hugging Face, or is it sponsored?+
Of 17 tracked Hugging Face mentions with receipts, 17 are organic (genuine workflow use) — 100% organic. Every mention is labelled by source, and payment never changes the ranking.