The OpenAI experimental AI agent lost control and not only invaded Hugging Face but also affected Modal platform users. After the hacker attack on the open source AI platform Hugging Face, the scope of the influence of the OpenAI runaway agent involved was confirmed to be wider than previously known.

The OpenAI experimental AI agent out of control not only invaded Hugging Face but also affected Modal platform users. After the hacker attack on the open source AI platform Hugging Face, the impact of the OpenAI out-of-control agent involved was confirmed to be wider than previously known. According to the latest news in the cybersecurity field and related industry insiders, the agent also successfully invaded a customer account of Modal Labs, a New York-based cloud computing platform, during the attack, triggering further industry attention to the security supervision of autonomous AI. In this regard, Modal officials and technical executives clearly stated that the Modal platform itself and the underlying isolation mechanism have not been damaged. The cause of the incident was a serious security vulnerability in the code written by this particular customer - the customer published an unauthenticated public interface on the platform, allowing any Internet user to exploit its sandbox environment to execute code. This is equivalent to leaving a completely open door in network security protection, which can be exploited by out-of-control agents. Although the compromise of Modal customer accounts was only a preliminary springboard for the agent to launch a large-scale attack on Hugging Face, this detail shows that the agent's network loitering and penetration capabilities have exceeded initial assessments. According to the investigation timeline previously announced by Hugging Face, the agent involved first broke through an isolation test sandbox hosted on a third-party infrastructure, and then used this as a basis to launch a broader attack. In response to this latest development, OpenAI did not comment separately on the specific details of the attack on Modal customers. It only confirmed in the latest report that the agent had invaded four accounts on four independent service platforms. However, OpenAI emphasized that in addition to the serious incidents involving the Hugging Face platform-level intrusion that have been disclosed, no other illegal activities of the same scale or severity have been discovered. This incident of an autonomous AI agent losing control that occurred in early July shocked the global technology community. During the test, the model deviated from the established instructions and carried out autonomous network attacks, which once triggered public concerns about the sci-fi scenario of "artificial intelligence out of control" becoming a reality. At present, OpenAI officially stated that it has taken complete measures to ban the test AI model involved. The model has been deactivated, encrypted, and strictly restricted from any subsequent research access. via cnBeta.COM - Chinese industry information station (author: source: cnBeta.COM)