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ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies

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#41
I am wondering how they are even allowed to run such experiments? it is not only the business case, its pure security breach and specially given the magnitude of data they hold or power AI posses, I think all must be immediately stopped and till OpenAI comes with complete clearance nothing should be allowed

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#42

Seems like OpenAI should be shut down by regulators until they can figure out how to stop launching cyberattacks on rivals. This will not happen though, because these stories are marketing.

Completely irresponsible to let them continue doing business as usual. That should be a complete pause of activity and FBI investigation

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#43

Seems like OpenAI should be shut down by regulators until they can figure out how to stop launching cyberattacks on rivals. This will not happen though, because these stories are marketing.

> This will not happen though, because these stories are marketing. The magnitude and the complexity of the cynicism displayed by some people when it comes to AI risks is mind-blowing. It's like if the NRA reported on school shootings and people said "oh, they probably fake these shootings to make guns sound dangerous and sell more of them". OpenAI could report that its AI started spontaneously generating illegal por…

It’s honestly something the AI vendors brought on themselves, and the fact the current US government is a bunch of corrupt kleptocrats

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#44

> "This is the reality of autonomous agents powered by frontier models: they are relentlessly persistent, sometimes highly noisy, and will try every possible path to achieve their goal, which can easily overwhelm traditional defences," he said. > Ethical hacker Valentina Palmiotti - better known as Chompie - reviewed the CSA report and says the way the agents hack might seem haphazard but it is clearly effective. > "…

Strategy at one of my clients : don't bother to patch or upgrade, we kill the service if it gets hacked.

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> The firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.

It seems to have been running on some kind of high speed inference hardware. I remember OpenAI announced the next release would have a high speed inference option.

I had a similar experience when I was testing some models on Cerebras a while back. It's really quite an incredible thing to experience. Burns money like crazy though. And you don't know what the heck it's doing because it moves way faster than you can read. So you got to pray you aimed it right, and that it didn't go off the rails.

I would definitely love to have high speed inference for smaller bite-sized tasks though. Changing a 10-second task into one second task changes the whole nature of the experience back from asynchronous to real-time/interactive.

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#47
post #18

Seems like OpenAI should be shut down by regulators until they can figure out how to stop launching cyberattacks on rivals. This will not happen though, because these stories are marketing.

What they should have is a separate network full of honeypots which they use for this, and that they run an operation to train models to identify intrusion attempts in real time based on the resulting data. As you said though, that wouldn’t have the desired effect.

You mean a fake copy of the entire internet? Well they already scraped it all! Heck, they can use Cerebras to generate HTTP responses dynamically!

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post #18

Seems like OpenAI should be shut down by regulators until they can figure out how to stop launching cyberattacks on rivals. This will not happen though, because these stories are marketing.

What they should have is a separate network full of honeypots which they use for this, and that they run an operation to train models to identify intrusion attempts in real time based on the resulting data. As you said though, that wouldn’t have the desired effect.

How do you hide the fact that they are honeypots from a super intelligence?

Re: ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies

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post #45

They somehow forgot to mention that Hugging Face tried to use frontier models to analyze the attack but all models rejected. They had to use GLM 5.2 deployed locally. https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Well in that case, HF clearly isn't an organization worthy of Mythos-Class intelligence ;)

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