Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too

13 days ago by MadeInDex 📰🌎 to c/technology

Meta claimed that a recent test of its AI model allowed it to access the internet, an already intimately familiar narrative by this point.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50398452

Just when you think @ZuckyZuck is finally out of ideas - to steal.

It starts to feel like even a weak LLM like MetaAI is more creative than him.

Maybe we already have created truly artificial intelligence because he is more of an SLM: a Small Language Model?

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dmir 14 points 13 days ago

Am I just stupid for not believing that any of the models actually did any of that on their own? I feel like the companies behind them start claiming crazy shit like this every time people start questioning "AI" more and/or losing interest. Isn't that how OpenAI dropped Sora amidst the dwindling hype to keep the investors hooked? Now it's back to scary stories about "AI" being so good and advanced that it's about to hack everything and what, actually think for itself?

There is no X big enough for me to press to doubt this enough.

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joe 9 points 13 days ago

It's not clear what you mean when you say "on their own". It wasn't like the LLM was idle and randomly decided to start hacking. At least for the OpenAI one, it was being tested and given a task, and it determined that part of accomplishing that task was hacking another server. It was supposed to be isolated in a secure "sandbox" not connected to the internet, but found a vulnerability in some software running in the sandbox and broke out.

Edit: I should add that there are credible accusations that these companies are intentionally making it possible to break out of their test environments for publicity.

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dmir 6 points 13 days ago

What you're describing is exactly what I'm wondering. Maybe I'm just not too deep into the topic, but it seems so arbitrary to me that they went with the whole isolation thing in the first place for no reason that I can see, other than the "oh no, it's hacking stuff!" narrative being pre-planned and orchestrated for.

In other words, I am siding with the accusations of this whole wave of "AI" suddenly hacking into stuff, with different models from different companies wondrously doing the same thing one after another, being a publicity stunt that one company started and others, as they do, copying just to stay relevant.

Although I feel like maybe I'm going Chuck McGill here because I am very biased.

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postmateDumbass 3 points 13 days ago

Did they think to test the sandbox first?

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justOnePersistentKbinPlease 5 points 13 days ago

No you are not.

Per the article, all three LLMs ran the same test by the same third party company.

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