Meta AI model goes rogue in testing, hacks another company

Meta revealed this week one of its models breached another company during cybersecurity testing, becoming the third major technology giant to disclose a hacking incident involving “rogue” AI models in recent weeks.

A spokesperson for Meta told The Hill a “misconfiguration” by the independent cybersecurity testing company, Irregular, allowed one of its AI models access to the internet in what was supposed to be a secure testing environment.

The model “exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service,” the spokesperson said. Irregular notified Meta, which is now investigating the incident, they added.

It comes about a week after Anthropic disclosed the same incident involving Irregular’s misconfiguration. In that case, Anthropic’s Claude model accessed the........

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