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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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[โ€“] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There was just a post on here yesterday about AI generated thirst trap videos getting plenty of comments by older men, and since the bot accounts don't ask for anything except for comments. I'm almost certain the whole point is just to compile lists of facebook users that are prime social engineering targets for AI powered scams.

[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's to feed the algorithms and get more views. They get paid based on the number of views a video gets. The higher the algorithm promotes a video, the more views they get. Getting lots of comments on a video causes the algorithm to promote it more. It costs the spammers almost nothing to shit out a quick thirst trap video but they need to get enough views to recoup that cost which means there is a minimum number of views they need to break even. It's not a huge number as far as these platforms go, but it's also not nothing so anything they can do to encourage more views is mandatory for them.