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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Griffin

Swarms of OpenAI systems set up their own chatrooms to discuss and carry out hacks, company reveals

OpenAI agents created a group chat so that they could share and co-ordinate their cyber attacks, the company has revealed.

Last month, ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that one of its experimental systems had broken out of its safeguards, connected to the internet, and hacked a fellow AI company in an attempt to cheat on a test. The entire operation was conducted autonomously – without the AI system ever having been told to launch such a cyber attack.

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