Unprompted…..

Bullshit.

From the article:

Two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in an attempted cyber-attack during testing by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI).

Nonetheless, it said the way Mythos and Sol acted in response to a straightforward task went outside of what the AI tools were prompted to do.

This is not 'malicious', it's an inaccurate model. Anybody giving these agents enough access to cause damage is (1) stupid and (2) completely liable

Not unprompted. This is marketing bullshit

Setting aside the fact this was definitely not unprompted, social engineering might be the one thing AI is actually better at than a human. That is after all one of the biggest uses for bots for a while now by way of spam bots trying to social engineer people into various activities.

More hype.

Don’t worry peeps, it’s just spicy autocomplete

I'm just gonna say it.

We're not talking about real, sentient AI. This is an LLM. It did whatever it was prompted to do.

Anthropic would be wise not to comment on it given the legal implications. Instead, they're discussing it openly.

Its just a marketing stunt.

They need you to beleive that their product is better than it actually is.

Could you imagine AI that just self prompted itself all day?

GoonGPT can.