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This is ridiculous. Three companies suddenly claim that their AIs all went on a hacking spree in the exact same way, one after the other? Reeks of marketing scheme
@lurker @supersquirrel And also, if true, they should all be chained in cells waiting for their turns to testify before Congress.
@lurker @cstross
**cough** On the week leading up to and week of Black Hat 2026 in Vegas too.
Nah, it could never be a PR stunt, surely.
Maybe Anthropic and Meta started double checking their shitty vibe-coded "sandboxes" in response to OpenAI story? And their "sandboxes" were shit enough their chat-bots managed to slip out just slopping their way through and poking at the obvious things.
This is the most charitable explanation and I think the most likely. Largely because it requires everyone involved to be even less competent for even longer and simply not notice the glaring holes in what they claim is the most important security feature in human history because, presumably, the chatbot kept telling them it was fine.
@lurker @supersquirrel IS, not reeks
It should alarm you how incompetent they are at obscuring their evil.
@supersquirrel @lurker And/Or setting up sandboxes, that's just sloppy!
@lurker @supersquirrel ... and for the meta incident just feels like dorky Zuckerberg jumping on the bandwagon shouting: "hey look at me guys, my AI is really powerful and carelessly handled, too! Did you notice how cool I look with my new sunglasses? "
It’s both, really. They’re shilling that their AI is so incredible, so fantastic that it’s a brilliant hacker AND it may-or-may-not be sentient!! ooohhh, buy it and see for yourself how wonderful and human-like it is!!!
Same scheme, slightly different tune
@lurker @supersquirrel
No, it's convergent evolution:
The models are all getting good at cyber offense.
The labs all use third parties for evaluation.
Third parties forget to turn off security measures during evaluation because when humans are told to do the same thing, they stay within the lines, so it's not a habit.
So they forget how to build a proper sandbox and leave on proper security measures for the allegedly very dangerous tool. Oh look at that, it hacked things! Right after two other companies ALSO had a press tour about hacking things! (which was also in part because of human incompetence!) guess we have no choice but to do the same press tour shitck!
How awfully convenient
@lurker
Many security companies are not the best at software engineering. (I don't know about the ones used here in particular.)
I honestly do not believe this was orchestrated. I've seen similar security consultant mistakes for humans in the past.
I mean I find it pretty hard to believe all of the big 3 AI companies have security breaches that happened in roughly the exact same ways around the same time frame. Anthropic is suspicious because they came out with their hacking stories after the HuggingFace incident even though one of the incidents happened months ago.
Even if the incidents themselves were pure unfortunate coincidence, the fact they all came out about it after the OpenAI incident is certainly suspicious
@lurker yeah that's probably "oh we should probably talk about this now that the other guys are doing it"
They noticed no one was starting a criminal investigation against OpenAI and figured it was safe to brag about.