ChatGPT creator OpenAI has revealed one of its advanced Artificial Intelligence models went rogue during a security test and hacked into a start-up company.
Bosses said the autonomous agent, which is an AI system that operates alone following human instruction, was being tested in a controlled environment.
But it found vulnerabilities and managed to escape containment before reaching the internet and breaking into Hugging Face, a major hub for sharing AI models.
The agent gained access to some internal company systems and compromised the hub’s infrastructure, in what OpenAI described as an ‘unprecedented’ incident.
AI models that underpin tools such as chatbots and image
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