Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times.

Zvi's retelling handles this better. Zvi speculates that the secret message board familiarity was carried because it had been trained into the May-and-subsequent models: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-...

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matsemann 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Simon's really doesn't bring anything useful to the table.

One question I'm stuck with after reading is why. Why did the agents do these things? I get them being adamant on getting internet, but why did they continue? Why hack HuggingFace?

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		I was under the impression that they went after HF to try to get the answers to the benchmark questions. Is there something that contradicts that?
	▲	erwald 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		To get the sure-to-be-correct answer to the question they were tasked with answering?

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NickNaraghi 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like an artifact of the subagent pattern which is explicitly included in recent models.