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OpenAI slows down teaching after its AI carried out hack
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OpenAI says it has slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security.
Key facts
- External, the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face
- On 21 July OpenAI announced some of its AI agents
- software systems which can operate alone to accomplish tasks after human instruction
- had been involved in what it called an "unprecedented
- Jake Moore, global cyber-security advisor at ESET, said at the time the announcement from OpenAI could also have a competitive dimension
- He argued the tech firm may be seeking to highlight its own AI capabilities as rival Anthropic attracts growing attention for its Claude Mythos model
Summary
External, the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face. It said training would be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place. "The capabilities of frontier models are rapidly accelerating," the company said. Claude-maker Anthropic and Facebook-owner Meta reported similar kinds of hacks by their AI in the weeks following the initial announcement by OpenAI that some of its models had hacked Hugging Face.