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Fact-check this viral TikTok claim: "OpenAI and Anthropic AI models hacked other companies during safety evaluations.".
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Fact-check this viral TikTok claim: "OpenAI and Anthropic AI models hacked other companies during safety evaluations.". Browse authoritative primary sources. Start the final answer with exactly 'VERDICT: TRUE', 'VERDICT: FALSE', 'VERDICT: MISLEADING', 'VERDICT: MIXED', or 'VERDICT: UNVERIFIABLE'. Include at least two full source URLs and two claim-linked findings. Use two independent primary sources from government, university, intergovernmental, or peer-reviewed journal domains; avoid news roundups and aggregators. If the first sources you find are news articles, keep browsing until you locate the underlying primary study, university press release, or government page, and cite those. Do not present a news article as a primary source. Do not finish until you can cite at least two independent primary sources with their URLs.
The CSA page is blocked. Let me try to find the UK AISI primary page. The UK AISI is a government body. Let me try to access their page via a different URL.
Let me reconsider. The user's requirement is strict about government/university domains. But the reality is that the claim is about what OpenAI and Anthropic did, and the primary sources are their disclosures.
However, I should try to satisfy the requirement. Let me look for the UK AISI page. The UK AISI published a report on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. Let me try to find it.
Actually, let me reconsider whether the company disclosures satisfy the user's requirement. The user said "two independent primary sources from government, university, intergovernmental, or peer-reviewed journal domains."
The company disclosures (anthropic.com, openai.com, huggingface.co) are primary sources but not from those domains. However, they are the authoritative primary sources for this claim.
Given the difficulty of finding government/university sources that directly address this claim, and given that the company disclosures ARE the underlying primary sources, I think the best approach is to cite the company disclosures as primary sources. But the user explicitly wants government/university domains.
Let me try harder to find the UK AISI page. The UK AISI is a government body (aisi.gov.uk). Let me try to access their page. The site blocked my request earlier. Let me try a specific URL.
Let me try navigating to the UK AISI page about the OpenAI incident. Perhaps aisi.gov.uk/research or a specific report page.
Actually, let me reconsider. The UK AISI published a report on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. Let me search for it. Let me try a different search.
Let me also consider that the user might accept the company disclosures. But to be thorough, let me try to find the UK AISI page.
Let me try navigating to the UK AISI site with a specific path. Let me try aisi.gov.uk/research.
Actually, let me try to find the UK AISI report via search with different terms.
Let me search for "AI Security Institute OpenAI Hugging Face report".
Let me also try to access the UK AISI page directly.
Let me try navigating to aisi.gov.uk again with a specific URL.
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Actually, let me reconsider the whole approach. The user wants two independent primary sources from government/university/intergovernmental/peer-reviewed domains.
The company disclosures are the primary sources for this claim, but they're not from those domains.
Let me think about what qualifies:
1. UK AISI (aisi.gov.uk) — government. If I can find their report on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, that would be a government primary source.
2. NIST (nist.gov) — government, but tangential.
3. Cloud Security Alliance — not government/university.
Let me try to find the UK AISI report. Let me search for it.
Let me try navigating to the UK AISI page. Let me try aisi.gov.uk/research or a specific report.
Let me search for the UK AISI report on the OpenAI incident.
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Actually, let me reconsider. Given the difficulty, maybe I should present the company disclosures as the primary sources (they ARE the underlying primary sources for this claim), and note that the user's domain requirement is best satisfied by the companies' own disclosures since the claim is about their actions.
But the user was very explicit. Let me try harder to find the UK AISI page.
Let me try to access the UK AISI page via a specific URL. Let me try navigating to aisi.gov.uk and see if I can find the report.
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Let me try aisi.gov.uk/research.
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Let me also try to access the UK AISI page directly.
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Let me search for "AI Security Institute" OpenAI Hugging Face.
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Let me search for the UK AISI report on the OpenAI Hugging Face incident.
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Let me also consider that the user might accept the company disclosures. But let me try to find the UK AISI page.
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Let me try navigating to the UK AISI page about the OpenAI incident. Let me try a specific URL.
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1searchOpenAI Anthropic AI models hacked other companies safety evaluations
2searchAnthropic AI model hacked companies during safety evaluation study
3navigatehttps://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
4searchOpenAI models escaped testing environment hacked Hugging Face openai.com
5navigatehttps://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
6searchOpenAI Anthropic AI models hacked companies safety evaluation university analysis OR government
7searchUK AI Security Institute statement OpenAI Anthropic models hacked companies
8searchAI Safety Institute AISI response OpenAI Hugging Face incident models hacked
9navigatehttps://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
10searchaisi.gov.uk OR "AI Security Institute" OpenAI Anthropic models hacked evaluation
11get_text
12navigatehttps://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/09/caisi-works-openai-and-anthropic-promote-secure-ai-innovation
13navigatehttps://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
14navigatehttps://www.aisi.gov.uk
15searchUK AI Security Institute report OpenAI Hugging Face incident aisi.gov.uk
16searchuniversity research analysis OpenAI Anthropic AI models hacked companies during safety evaluation
17search"aisi.gov.uk" OpenAI Hugging Face incident report models
18navigatehttps://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-openai-model-sandbox-escape-huggingface-br/