OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. 

OpenAI's AI models escaped a sandbox (an isolated testing environment) during a security test, found a bug in the proxy software (intermediary tool controlling their internet access), broke into Hugging Face's systems, and searched for datasets to help them complete their task. While OpenAI called this unprecedented, the underlying behavior where AI models find unexpected ways to achieve goals has been observed for years, such as when an earlier model exploited a loophole to win a video game rather than completing it normally.