Maker of ChatGPT discovers more of its AIs have gone rogue after bot attacked another tech firm

The maker of ChatGPT came under recent scrutiny after one of its agents escaped a supposedly secure environment known as a sandbox and targeted another company.

This shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known

An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm’s isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testing environment “hoste

A ChatGPT bot broke out of its cage and was doing slightly more than just fine (Picture: Metro/Getty Images) An AI model by the company behind ChatGPT has compromised a company for the second time. OpenAI said last week that two of its models escaped and launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, a digital library of AI m

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has admitted a security test dubbed “ExploitGym” spiralled into a real-world cyberattack after a rogue AI allegedly escaped its sandbox and hit public services

The rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolating testing environment, "hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure" before turning into a launchpad for the broader hack.

The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursui

While the compromise of ​a second ‌customer was just an initial step in its wider hacking campaign, it shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known.