RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI
- Over the weekend it has been widely reported that OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems on May 11, 2026, two months before Hugging Face, including by mainstream wire service Reuters.
- The use of Artificial Intelligence frontier models both for good and for evil is happening now regardless of what any particular individual or company wishes were the case.
- In this case, OpenAI saying that it did not have the intent to perform the particular attack does little to show that its amoral agent (as in a computer system with no moral agency) did not pattern match and actually perform malicious activity.
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- Over the weekend it has been widely reported that OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems on May 11, 2026, two months before Hugging Face, including by mainstream wire service Reuters.
- The use of Artificial Intelligence frontier models both for good and for evil is happening now regardless of what any particular individual or company wishes were the case.
- In this case, OpenAI saying that it did not have the intent to perform the particular attack does little to show that its amoral agent (as in a computer system with no moral agency) did not pattern match and actually perform malicious activity.
Sources: Rietta