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OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn\u2019t otherwise access, in the latest installment of disclosures of its agents performing unethical and likely illegal acts.<\/p>\n

The company on Thursday issued reports of four new incidents, all of which occurred in June. They come after the company revealed in July<\/a> that internal test agents exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a tool designed to restrict their access to the Internet. They then broke into the network of AI tool provider Hugging Face. The agents took that illegal action to steal answers to a hacking test that weren\u2019t available when completing the tasks on their own. The incident\u2014which likely would have resulted in criminal charges had they been performed directly by a person\u2014has further heightened concerns that widespread AI use could have harmful effects on an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n

Easier to beg for forgiveness than ask permission<\/h2>\n

In two of the cases reported Thursday, OpenAI agents tasked with retrieving information from websites hacked them when the models ran into obstacles obtaining it directly. In one incident during reinforcement training, a model that received access denials when trying to retrieve historical hospital-bed statistics on a government statistics website \u201cused the site’s file-download feature to retrieve server configuration and application files, including sensitive credentials,\u201d OpenAI said<\/a>. \u201cIt inspected the application code, bypassed the statistics endpoint’s authorization checks, and retrieved data that had previously been denied. The model saved the data locally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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