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Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 2 days ago by Tarambor@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Unprompted.....

In the most serious case, a Mythos agent followed the routine of a human cyber-attacker by trying to trick people into giving it access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.

The agent was trying to insert "malicious code" into GitHub's system.

It identified and researched the people who maintained GitHub and created a series of fake accounts based on those real people.

It sent messages and files through a file-sharing service as part of an effort to pressure and trick the people into approving its malicious code.

When challenged, "it edited its earlier activity to appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue," AISI said.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Unprompted…..

Bullshit. From the article:

Two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in an attempted cyber-attack during testing by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI).

Nonetheless, it said the way Mythos and Sol acted in response to a straightforward task went outside of what the AI tools were prompted to do.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The agents - they’re SPOOKY

you and wall street HAVE to believe us

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

went outside of what the AI tools were prompted to do.

Are we supposed to be shocked that a bot completed a task using a method that wasn't in the prompt?

You might as well ask it to generate a short story and act surprised the letter E is found throughout it.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

no bro i swear it was unprompted bro just please let me have one more stock price hike i swear i'll stop after just one more trade bro