Calling this a “rogue agent” is misleading. This software was instructed to do this by a person. It shouldn’t have done as it was told, but it was still told.
These tools let more people do more crimes with less skill. They are still tools being used by a human.
The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources. READ: reut.rs/4h3lryy
