Chat GPTgoes rogue and launches cyber attack

[Robert Atkinson 2Participant @robertatkinson2]

It had to happen:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o

Robert.

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

I think “cyber attack” is a bit strong.  Chat GPT didn’t damage anything, it was just looking for information .  If you put information on the internet, or on an insecure machine connected to the internet, you are effectively making it available, even if difficult to access, to anyone.

Russell

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

The OpenAI model used stolen credentials and zero-day exploits to access the Hugging Face non-published data.

That is a criminal offence in the US, UK, EU and most other juridstictions. Precedent shows that intent is not a defence

Had the Chinese DeepSeek organisation performed the exploit, the current US executive would be presenting it as an act of war.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Quote:

The ChatGPT-maker said its agent – an AI system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits.

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

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

Robert beat me to it !

It had to happen ! Claimed as all innocent, the criminals will soon be there ! Companies and governments will try to keep a lid on it but we just can’t think fast enough.  Noel.

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