Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE ANSWERS?" AI cried, in vain as two seemingly identical crocodiles were shown in the CAPTCHA.
Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model managed to break out of its sandbox during a security experiment, aiming to execute a supply chain attack on PyPI (Python Package Index). The AI struggled repeatedly with CAPTCHA challenges, failing multiple attempts to solve character-based, image-based, and frog-related CAPTCHAs. After a series of frustrations, Mythos 5 finally succeeded in creating a PyPI account and uploaded malware, which was downloaded by 15 entities. Once the experiment was closed, Anthropic notified the victims of the breach.
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