OpenAI’s Rogue AI Ventured Beyond Hugging Face
Hugging Face has published an anatomy of the attack and OpenAI has shared additional information from its investigation. The post OpenAI’s Rogue AI Ventured Beyond Hugging Face appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New information has come to light following the investigations conducted by OpenAI and Hugging Face into the recent incident involving rogue AI models.
The ML collaboration platform Hugging Face revealed on July 16 that it had detected a cyberattack powered by an autonomous AI agent system.
OpenAI admitted on July 21 that some of its models – taking part in an evaluation in what was believed to be an isolated environment – went rogue and hacked into Hugging Face systems in an attempt to solve the tasks they were given.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/openais-rogue-ai-ventured-beyond-hugging-face/
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