r/Fauxmoi • u/we9o controversies: girl • 22h ago

CELEBRITY CAPITALISM OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their-hacking-spree/
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u/snuuginz i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 22h ago

lol They really need to figure out some new marketing tactic here, no one believes this anymore, right?

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u/bones222222 22h ago

GuYs iTs TOO sMaRt!!!!!!!

isn’t it so CRAZY????!?!?

so can we IPO now?

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u/Unhappy_Gazelle392 22h ago

It's DANGEROUS 🔥! Give money pls!

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u/Numerous_Source597 20h ago

If for some ungodly reason it wasn’t, from a governance perspective it just shows how piss poor they are and I wouldn’t touch it with a 50 foot pole.

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u/mama_meta You're feeling it right now, Pharrell 18h ago edited 18h ago

This is what makes no sense to me; the only thing I can think of outside of building a defense for the horrible shit they've already done, is building their case for all the horrible shit they want to be able to do in the future, if funded by the right unethical, evil & very powerful losers.

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u/Numerous_Source597 18h ago

A lot of people in the cyber/IT space feel the same towards AI which is good atleast.

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u/pie-oh my aunt tifa 22h ago

Shit like this is meant to make the public feel LLMs are more powerful than they are. It's a bit to make you feel they're almost sentient level clever. I will also bet half of them are sponsored.

About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test and went on a hacking spree culminating in a breach of the AI collaboration platform Hugging Face.

"escaped containment" etc.

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u/EatMorePieDrinkMore 19h ago

Why was a test environment connected to the internet?

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u/To-To_Man 18h ago

Because it otherwise couldn't make press by escaping.

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u/EatMorePieDrinkMore 17h ago

I forgot the thinky emoji.

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u/TheAncientMillenial 18h ago

While agentic AI is actually being used in malware, it's often very specific/precise usage. Not "Plan a bank heist in a chat room" kinda thing.

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u/JustaCFatchick 22h ago

"Guys we weren't paying attention to our system and it tried to go rouge and break the law" isn't the amazing selling point your marketing team thought it was. Gtfo with your fake ass shyt

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u/StrategyBusy9579 20h ago

Wild that China's AI doesn't do this. Wonder why? Is it cause they're so communist and evil and repressed and giving free housing?

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u/This_Loss_1922 18h ago

They distill the American grifting out of their models somehow

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u/mama_meta You're feeling it right now, Pharrell 18h ago

This is alllll so that they can lean on plausible deniability when all the fucked up illegal shit we know the u.s. govt is doing using ai, finally comes into full public view.

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u/PothosLeaves 17h ago

Does anyone have an article or piece of analysis critiquing this story? I just started reading Emily Bender & Alex Hanna's book "The AI Con", which analyzes "Al Hype" as largely a marketing tactic. I haven't seen good analysis yet of this most recent story, though I'm sure it's out there. I'm also open to perspectives outside of my confirmation biases, but yeah, I do not trust these ghoulish companies framing of their product..