Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hack
Details have been released of an emergency call with hundreds of cyber-security experts after the ChatGPT hack of a tech company.
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"This is the reality of autonomous agents powered by frontier models: they are relentlessly persistent, sometimes highly noisy, and will try every possible path to achieve their goal, which can easily overwhelm traditional defences."
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Details have been released of an emergency call with hundreds of cyber-security experts after the ChatGPT hack of a tech company.
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