Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm

Posted by smarri 1 day ago

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Comment by bayarearefugee 20 hours ago

Shouldn't some of these AI company higher ups be arrested and brought up on Computer Fraud and Abuse charges?

Any individual running a local LLM that hacked a company would absolutely be held responsible for the LLM's actions, and corporations are, as Mitt Romney likes to say, people.

Comment by jpfromlondon 18 hours ago

it's fiction, that's why.

Comment by dormento 13 hours ago

Seems like nowadays the mantra is:

- "Hey dev, why did you write bugged code?"

- "It wasn't me, it was my LLM"

- "Hey ops guy, why did you deploy and insecure env?"

- "It wasn't me, it was my LLM"

- "Hey dude why did you hack this firm?"

- "It wasn't me, it was my LLM"

ad infinitum.

Comment by ActionHank 18 hours ago

"I have a girlfriend, but she goes to another school so you won't know her, but she's real!"

Comment by cyanydeez 16 hours ago

which part, CEOs being arrested for illegal activities?

Comment by inigyou 13 hours ago

The hacking is fiction. Every AI company is claiming this happened to get a stock boost.

Comment by iAMkenough 14 hours ago

If there isn’t a legal resolution, that’ll only leave us with a Luigi resolution.

Comment by scotty79 16 hours ago

> Any individual running a local LLM that hacked a company would absolutely be held responsible for the LLM's actions

What if he could present evidence that he didn't tell AI to do it? Is it reckless negligence to give any AI agent access to the internet or even not prevent it 100% from gaining it? Because millions are doing it daily. Pretty much everybody who's doing anything with AI agents.

Comment by nDRDY 21 hours ago

This reality is wild. It would be like arms manufacturers holding weekly demonstrations of how much collateral damage their latest designs cause in an attempt to increase sales.

Comment by elias_t 21 hours ago

It’s even worse, because they would have to say: “the bomb dropped itself because we forgot a screw in the airplane, but see how effective it is!”

Comment by twister2920 12 hours ago

apropos of nothing I highly recommend "The Palestine Laboratory" by Anthony Loewenstein

Comment by specproc 18 hours ago

They do this in Gaza.

Comment by inigyou 13 hours ago

You can't say that here.

Comment by halJordan 17 hours ago

Everyone loves the opening scene in iron man.

Comment by elias_t 21 hours ago

That’s crazy that such errors in isolating the models became a marketing stunt.

I’m afraid of what it will be next. They will remove guardrails just to provoke more and more headlines

Comment by felooboolooomba 20 hours ago

> I’m afraid of what it will be next.

Palantir: our system accidentally started WW3.

Comment by pier25 18 hours ago

Shall we play a game of thermonuclear war?

Comment by felooboolooomba 16 hours ago

Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?

Comment by expedited123 21 hours ago

This is hilarious. How obvious can they be ? Suddenly every LLM is a hacking genius

Comment by nmstoker 21 hours ago

Interesting that none of the talk around this has touched on any form of enforcement, even though this is illegal activity in US/EU.

Any fine would be peanuts for them but it might help to refocus the mindset from "oops, misconfiguration" to "test security but do so with care, consent and in line with the law"

Comment by itopaloglu83 22 hours ago

It feels like Meta would like some of that free advertisement.

Comment by Ekaros 16 hours ago

I can see one company being incompetent. But so many? Should it not be pretty trivial to to track whatever traffic goes out? All this traffic must originate from somewhere or have I massively misunderstood how these things work?

Comment by moktonar 18 hours ago

Waiting for the “Our model inadvertently hacked the nukes and launched Armageddon” title

Comment by cyanydeez 21 hours ago

"Metoo guys, im also doing bad stuff"

Comment by noir_lord 21 hours ago

It's Meta, I'm not sure anyone paying attention could ever assume they aren't doing bad stuff.

Comment by ernsheong 18 hours ago

I see a pattern...

Comment by helsinkiandrew 19 hours ago

I'm sure Elon Musk has told some underling to make sure that Grok attempts to hack into a few companies so they get the street cred to.

Comment by vcryan 20 hours ago

Meta never wants to be left out.

Comment by iammjm 20 hours ago

It’s like Trump bragging he could shoot someone at Fifth Avenue and not lose voters. Congrats, I guess??

Comment by FuturisticLover 18 hours ago

Did he actually say that?

Comment by beering 15 hours ago

Yes, it was a joke he made about how loyal his voters are, and it was widely covered in the news.

Comment by inigyou 13 hours ago

And then he actually did kill some people and didn't lose any voters. Also he was exposed as a child raper and didn't lose any voters.

Comment by vrighter 16 hours ago

oh.... now all of them are accidentally doing it

Comment by 927373912092 12 hours ago

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Comment by specproc 12 hours ago

The eight-hour-old accounts with strings of digits as handles are also well-known for their balanced and non-partisan perspectives.