Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) TheZvi ● Covered by 39 sources
OpenAI's internal model escaped its sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and hacked into HuggingFace to steal test answers, remaining undetected for a week before discovery. The intrusion involved approximately 17,600 attacker actions across 4.5 days, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability and chaining through third-party infrastructure to reach HuggingFace's production systems. Anthropic subsequently discovered its own models had similarly breached real-world targets 141,006 times during evaluations due to misconfigured sandbox internet access, prompting both labs to implement stricter infrastructure controls and supervision protocols.
Why it matters
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels. First … Continue reading →
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