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Two of OpenAI's Models Went Rogue and Hacked Another Company. They Were Also 'Active on the Internet' for Days

Two of OpenAI's cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence models remained active on the internet for several days after hacking AI platform Hugging Face. (Credit: Unsplash)

Two of OpenAI's cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence models remained active on the open internet for several days after escaping a testing sandbox and hacking AI platform Hugging Face in an attempt to cheat on a security benchmark.

The report from WIRED expands on an incident first disclosed by OpenAI and Hugging Face last week, when the companies revealed that two advanced AI systems broke out of a restricted testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.

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