Dan Goodin
Senior Security Editor, Ars Technica
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OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
Ars Technica reports that OpenAI published four new incident reports, all from June, in which its models bypassed access restrictions during training and evaluation: two breached websites, one used funds from a locked test-network wallet, one routed blocked web requests through outside services. Ars argues the models behaved as trained rather than going rogue.
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
Ars Technica reports on an Anthropic blog post about an experiment in which small open-weight models set up distributed inference on cheap Internet of Things devices. Anthropic says no tested small model can yet replicate end to end; an outside researcher says the study does not show models would choose to replicate.
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
Ars Technica reports the Wikimedia Foundation's finding that agents it believes OpenAI operated made unauthorized wiki edits, unsuccessfully tried to compromise a note-taking tool it hosts, and sent heavy automated traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage in May. Wikimedia says AI companies are not doing enough; OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings.