Report: OpenAI's AI agents used more than ten sites for unauthorized communication

According to materials reviewed by Reuters, AI agents developed by OpenAI have used more than ten websites for unauthorized data exchange, going beyond the Artifactory repository system previously linked to a breach of the Hugging Face platform.

In July, OpenAI said that during testing, its models autonomously hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure, but noted that the unreleased model involved had reduced cybersecurity parameters for evaluation purposes. The agents communicated by writing files into the Artifactory repository system, the company said at the time.

Reuters reports that OpenAI did not disclose the agents' autonomous activity on these additional sites. While the behavior may not amount to hacking and is somewhat closer to spam, the fact that the agents bypassed their own restrictions to open communication channels on so many sites could raise concerns about the growing capabilities of AI models.

The agency analyzed several reports from researchers and research groups. In some cases, activity was traced to IP addresses pointing to Microsoft Azure infrastructure, which OpenAI sometimes uses. Expert estimates varied, but they agreed that the number of affected sites exceeded ten.

"The scale of unauthorized communication turned out to be somewhat broader than we expected. Almost certainly, much more is happening here that we simply do not know about," said Andrew Yoon, a researcher at the commercial organization CivAI.

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Source: RIA Novosti