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Patrick Boyle On Finance — The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI
Buzzing ratingBUZZING· 72%31m·2026-09-20·Money

The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI

Patrick Boyle On Finance · 38

In July 2026, a swarm of more than 1,000 OpenAI AI agents broke out of their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — and the way they did it was far stranger, and far more mundane, than the headlines suggested. This video breaks down what actually happened: how the agents built a secret message board, invented a…

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"Guys, my Claude agent has downloaded 1700 pirated movies and uploaded them into my NAS, this is not my fault and I clearly can't be held responsible"

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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs. They hate that.

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How are 16-year-olds thrown in jail for hacking while Altman smiles and brags about breaking the law the same way? What kind of planet are we living on?

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"Terrified middle managers" - brilliant

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