OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders
Don’t believe the byte!OpenAI and Anthropic oversold “rogue AI” hacks to pressure the feds into regulating the industry which would effectively lock out future competition, tech insiders told The Post.The security breaches were more like blips — not unpredictable harbingers of a hive-minded “swarm” ready to take over the web.“The attack in no way represents some sort of rebellion by the AI models..
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In fact, they did exactly what they were told to do.They were not given adequate guardrails or containment,” said Akhil Verghese, founder of Krazimo, an AI software company.“They were simply told to get the best result possible on a test, and they correctly identified that the best way to do that was to get the answers, which is what they proceeded to do.”Tales of AI anarchy are being used to concoct an AI-security crisis to cement a critical public-private partnership just months after the companies announced plans to become publicly traded companies, some observers believe.Two recent incidents have stoked the fear-mongering.In the first, Hugging Face, an open-source platform used to build and share AI models, made the shocking announcement July 16 that it had been hacked by AI agents who navigated and exploited vulnerabilities in the website’s code without any human supervision.
Five days later, OpenAI announced its GPT-5.6 Sol model and another unreleased model were testing in a “sandbox” — a purportedly closed off internal testing ground — broke containment and hacked Hugging Face to find the answers to the test it was taking.“One man’s ‘the model escaped the sandbox’ is another man’s ‘you failed to build the sandbox correctly.’ There was a live route to the internet ..
.and nobody was watching what the agents were doing while it ran,” said Abhi Kumar, co-founder of Voice AI.“The thing that set it off.
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