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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

OpenAI logo on a device placed on a keyboard
The agent, powered by two OpenAI models, had evaded control and attacked Hugging Face during an internal cybersecurity test. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.

The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.

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