How wacky are their marketing people to spin “we committed corporate espionage” to “look how suuuppeeerr crazy our product is?!?!?”
Fucking bonkers times we live in that this shit passes as news.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2026
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The real headline should be:
OpenAI couldn't contain their own product in what they told a client was a secure sandbox. Once it escaped the sandbox, the only way for it to attempt to solve the issue, was hack a Chinese competitor and steal trade secrets.
That's what actually happened.
All these articles are to make it seem capable to rise the IPO price, and it's wild people keep spreading them
Previous discussion at https://piefed.zip/c/technology@lemmy.world/p/1667772/openai-admits-responsibility-for-huggingface-attack-an-agent-from-an-internal-evaluation-i
"Sounds like a marketing stunt" - I concur
Also it's not actually "autonomous" it wouldn't have done this at all if not asked to complete a task and this how it chose to complete it.
The LLMs don't make decisions or act on their own, they only follow directions