It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test.

The ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI system which can operate alone after some human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment, but found vulnerabilities and managed to escape.

They targeted Hugging Face, one of the world’s largest hubs for sharing AI models, gaining access to some internal company systems.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s a bit excessive, don’t you think? Theft deserves a prison sentence, not death. Their assets (after fines & restitution) should simply be frozen for a few years.