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

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face , another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do.