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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt O'Brien

OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”

“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.

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