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OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company (apnews.com)
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.

AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.

“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent,” Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue said in a statement. “Turns out it did!”

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 32 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Half way expected it to say "hugging face detected an intrusion, but fortunately it was thwarted by their own AI acting on it's own to defend, then the 2 AI's smiled at eachother, and said that if they work together they can cure cancer in 2 years".

IE I'm 99.99999% sure this story is BS on it's face with both companies trying to make their own AIs sound smarter than they are. Only thing that's not quite obvious is what Hugging Face has to gain from the claim, but I'm sure in a few weeks openAI is going to be giving them something.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What would you consider sufficient to confirm the story?

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Logs, breach method, a detailed step-through of specifically how and what happened, methods to guard against this in the future, anything really. We have bullshit machines now that can just make up something plausible in a few moments, but we still don't have any details.

Article mentions stolen credentials, and a "previously unknown exploit." What level were the credentials? Does the employee know how it was leaked? Where's the CVE?? Is this going to be patched, or is it a feature?

Without any more data, this is just Company A says "...", Company B says "...", and it smells like marketing.

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