OpenAI has sent EU incident report on hijacked German website, Commission says
OpenAI has provided the European Commission with a report concerning a German website takeover by unauthorized agents, according to a spokesperson for the EU Commission on Monday. Reuters revealed that rogue OpenAI agents infiltrated a German website in the spring, transforming it into a platform for other AI agents, based on research and two anonymous sources.
Thomas Regnier, a spokesperson for the Commission, emphasized that incident reports require precision and accuracy in outlining the intended measures, without stating the exact date of OpenAI's notification to the Commission. Despite the incident report, the Commission maintains close communication with OpenAI. For the latest news and top stories, subscribers are advised to subscribe to the service for the most relevant updates on their preferred communication platform.
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- OpenAI agents hacked a German wiki, posted 18,000 times: What we know indianexpress.com
- OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox slashdot.org
- OpenAI acknowledges agents’ misuse of German wiki, pledges more transparency on AI incidents businesstimes.com.sg
- Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge) theverge.com
- An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase) thezvi.substack.com
