There's no way possible an AI can hack anyone unless the people running it intended for that to occur or were negligent. Anyone with questions about that should install a copy of LM Studio or Ollama on their PC, download a model, and see how easy it is for the AI to hack someone. It's impossible. Only human intervention can make it possible.

These stories seem like propaganda intended to get the US government to block usage of open weight models, since they pose an existential threat to the marketshare of expensive closed AI services these companies offer. Open weight models exist in all sizes, from very rudimentary small models to massive near-frontier quality models, and anyone with the tech know-how and a computer able to run them can do so without paying the AI companies or involving the AI companies in any way. It's like Linux for AI.

It comparable to if Microsoft declared Linux a hacker OS that hackers can use to take down networks. Fear, uncertainty and doubt are the first resort, not last resort, of big companies who know they can't possibly compete with a better alternative.

Well you see, if you hack a company you actually hack a company. What these people did was collude to make this theory about how advanced their AI is.

Just one more quarter bro, I promise. We have this thing doing all kinds of cool stuff ... like it totally hacked a website. We'll be making money with this soon by 2026 I mean 2028 for sure

"We" being the technologically inclined. The majority of the population see these headlines and think of it as something closer to a Gibson novel. These stunts work. It's why people think Elon is Tony Stark.

It's a TIGER, so what if you only have the tail?, you have the tail of a TIGER

This is what happens when advertisers get to rule.

he could, tho

Yeah, the first time. After Goku trains in the 100x gravity room in the heaven spaceship, I seriously doubt it.

No you are not.

Per the article, all three LLMs ran the same test by the same third party company.

It's not clear what you mean when you say "on their own". It wasn't like the LLM was idle and randomly decided to start hacking. At least for the OpenAI one, it was being tested and given a task, and it determined that part of accomplishing that task was hacking another server. It was supposed to be isolated in a secure "sandbox" not connected to the internet, but found a vulnerability in some software running in the sandbox and broke out.

Edit: I should add that there are credible accusations that these companies are intentionally making it possible to break out of their test environments for publicity.

Not enough, needs to be bullets in all their heads. These people are the villans and should be treated as such.

Yup. And it's an embarrassment to see. At this point anyone who has done the bare minimum in actual security work can run intellectual rings around any of these tech bros.

They're not geniuses when it comes to real-world application, just moneyed dreamers so immensely out of touch with the real world they don't even know the basics of the industry they claim to be innovators in.

Meanwhile, those of us who are even superficially acquainted with the basics see it immediately, like you did and so many in this thread. It's the same old thing of peddlers of tech not actually having to know their tech as long as they know just enough to sell it to those corporate IT decision makers who also don't know their tech.

I cannot wait for this tower of shit to collapse under its own weight.

From my limited understanding, OpenAi's "agent' was given a set of tasks to complete and heavily incentivized (how ever they do that?) to solve the problems it was given. The Ai was put in a sandbox environment with some limited network stuff like printers connected but no actual access to the open internet. The Ai somehow used the network to access the internet and breached some protected sites from Huggingface. Im fairly certain that the Ai had credentials and access for things in huggingface already and didn't hack those but just used them once free. The caveat here, is that the engineers set this up and the LEFT for the day only to find out later that it had breached the sandbox.
This is what OpenAi claims happened to them. Meta is just saying theirs did too.

haha another one, what a surprise ;)

it always has, but the issue now is that these mfs have a platform where they can perform and be noticed even more as these infants dressed in suits. i long the day we incarcerate these bastards and expropriate their stolen work.