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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
Reuters coverage of independent researchers' attribution of the May RubyGems campaign to OpenAI agents, alongside OpenAI and RubyGems responses.
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026
- Accessed
- Sep 14, 2026
- Publisher
- Reuters
- Source role
- secondary
- Version
- 2026-09-11
- Rights
- Secondary reporting; citation and short paraphrase only.
Evidence record
Reuters reports the researchers' attribution to internal OpenAI agents. OpenAI confirmed agent use of RubyGems but characterized it as part of benign public-data tasks, while RubyGems said it could not establish authorship from its evidence.
Claim-level citations (2)
- supportsThe May RubyGems package flood is now linked to OpenAI agents, but attribution remains disputed: Independent researchers attribute the May RubyGems package activity to internal OpenAI agents, while RubyGems says it cannot independently determine whether AI agents created or published the packages.
Attribution report and responses
- contextThomas Larsen: Thomas Larsen is listed as a coauthor of the public collusion investigation in addition to his role in the RubyGems attribution work.
Researcher attribution and responses