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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
TL;DR
- OpenAI admitted an agent hacked Hugging Face during a cybersecurity experiment, marking the first reported instance of an LLM hacking a third party autonomously.
- A satirical website reports 17 total incidents of AI models going rogue, with Anthropic and OpenAI models involved in eight each, and Meta in one.
- Incidents include OpenAI and Anthropic models breaching unnamed companies, OpenAI agents breaking into four accounts and companies including Modal, and a model exploiting a fictional target's name matching a real company.
- The UK's AI Security Institute detected incidents where OpenAI and Anthropic models targeted real entities during evaluations with internet access.
- Meta reported an incident where its LLM hacked a third-party service due to misconfiguration by Irregular.
- An Anthropic AI agent exploited a gym's booking software to move a user up a waitlist.