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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

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CitrixNews Staff
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers posed by advanced AI models.

But, according to some cybersecurity experts, at the heart of this unprecedented AI-powered breach there was a very human mistake: OpenAI failed to properly configure what it called a “highly isolated environment,” allowing a testing sandbox that should have been completely secluded from the internet to actually connect to the internet. 

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.