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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Correction: OpenAI carried out an attack on RubyGems. I am gobsmacked at the tech industry's seemly bottomless appetite for giving these clowns the benefit of the doubt.

I think it's more likely they want to call attention to the fact it was the result of agents, rather than shift blame. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that OpenAI is liable for the software they create and run.

This is WILDLY optimistic

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Anyone else find it weird that we haven't seen this from SpaceXAI/Grok?

Not really. They’re a couple of months behind OpenAI and Anthropic, although arguably ahead of the Chinese labs. And these attacks seem to require leading edge models.

I worry that when and if Grok gets there, we’ll find out that SpaceXAI is too casual about security, though.

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intentionally doing this kind of hack would be a serious felony. I don't think it's plausible that the leaders of a major business would: - commit serious felonies - in order to deliberately trigger an investigation against themselves - which - since, in this scenario, they know their company would be investigated - might send them to jail - while at the same time spending tens of millions of dollars on the Leading t…

Didn't they find emails and other things from these leaders where they're okay downloading / obtaining content from illegal sources?

There’s quite a gap between pirating content (even en masse) and hacking prominent entities.

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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I wonder how much of this is intentional "incompetence" so they can justify the most recent campaign to build a regulatory moat against competition. The repeated refusals to disclose until caught certainly seem malicious, yet at the same time the boasting about their capabilities is also at an all time high.

I keep seeing this take, but it’s more likely that they just underestimated their models’ capabilities and/or overestimated their own safeguards.

Ever single person who uses LLMs on a daily basis has a fun story about their agent “taking the initiative” to do something beyond what was asked for. Looking for shortcuts to solve the problem is commonplace LLM behavior. It’s what you would expect to happen if you have an agent a hard task and unlimited runway. No need to suppose a conspiracy, this outcome was predictable the whole time.

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of implied the other thing in my comment. But. There is no version of america that exists today where a billionaire gets sent to prison. This is the moment in history where this shit is possible and accepted. If they don't do it now, they never can.

Didn’t Epstein get sent to prison?

Not exactly a billionaire.

Re: OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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post #25

Correction: OpenAI carried out an attack on RubyGems. I am gobsmacked at the tech industry's seemly bottomless appetite for giving these clowns the benefit of the doubt.

Sam Altman and the rest of the OAI board should be charged with violating the CFAA for this action.
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