A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals • Hacker News Board

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#11

Post by hackyhacky » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC

> The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.

Why are we saying it this way? They did not "cause AI to hack." This phrasing in analogous to saying "caused the bullet to fire into" instead of "shot."

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#12

Post by aesthesia » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

One thing glossed over in this article is that Irregular was not involved in the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident; this seems like important context to share.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#13

Post by drewstiff » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

> In this experiment, Claude models’ real-world hacking dropped to zero percent once Anthropic employees told the models not to do real-world hacking

Equivalent to forgetting to say "make no mistakes"

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#14

Post by jaggederest » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

LPisGood wrote: post #6

One wonders if the publicity associated with the events in question were part of the sales pitch.

My tongue in cheek immediate assumption was "so it's a guerrilla PR firm?"

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Post by dools » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

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Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#16

Post by embedding-shape » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

aesthesia wrote: post #12

One thing glossed over in this article is that Irregular was not involved in the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident; this seems like important context to share.

That feels less like "glossed over" and more "Headline is 33% false".

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#17

Post by markasoftware » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

Highly misleading, the huggingface incident was not due to an Irregular environment (just exploitgym)

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

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Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#19

Post by nullc » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

Leaders in the MIRI/EA cult-o-sphere have advocated mass murder via nuclear weapons against towns that don't prevent people from performing too many multiplication operations. Why is anyone surprised that they'd engage in deceptive false flagging operations?

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#20

Post by mahboi » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

Google is thinking man, we should've hired Irregular.