Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hack
The company that got hacked by a rogue version of ChatGPT has revealed what it was like to be on the receiving end of the
The company that got hacked by a rogue version of ChatGPT has revealed what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world's first fully-autonomous AI hack. In an emergency video call with hundreds of cyber-security professionals, the firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.
Hugging Face, which is like an app store for AI tools, said the hacking agents worked relentlessly with thousands of different methods trialled simultaneously. The company first revealed that it had been hacked, external by someone using powerful autonomous AI on 16 July and reported it to police. Nearly a week later, OpenAI admitted it was its AI that had escaped a closed environment and attacked Hugging Face on its own during a test.
It was trying to find the answers to a hacking exam it had been set by OpenAI, and targeted Hugging Face. The industry body the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) wrote-up a report, externalbased on the emergency meeting with Hugging Face on Friday - which Hugging Face itself has reviewed. "The agents followed inefficient routes and exhibited clumsy behaviours that no human would choose", the CSA wrote.
The agents repeated actions that they had already completed - a sign of an agentic AI losing its thread and context.
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