OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

Reported by The Verge · Sat 23:41 · Terrence O’Brien

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In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems…

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