Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hack
Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hackImage source, Getty ImagesByJoe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World ServicePublishedJust nowThe company that got hacked by a rogue version of ChatGPT has revealed what it was like to be on the receiving end of the…
- ▪Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hackImage source, Getty ImagesByJoe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World ServicePublishedJust nowThe company that got hacked by a rogue version of ChatGPT has revealed what it was
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:00:10 GMT |
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Sloppy and clumsy but overwhelming - inside the rogue ChatGPT hackImage source, Getty ImagesByJoe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World ServicePublishedJust nowThe company that got hacked by a rogue version of ChatGPT has revealed what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world's first fully-autonomous AI hack.In an emergency video call with hundreds of cyber-security professionals, the firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.Hugging Face, which is like an app store for AI tools, said the hacking agents worked relentlessly with thousands of different methods trialled simultaneously.The company first revealed that it had been hacked, external by someone using powerful autonomous AI on 16…
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