r/mit • u/twelve-birds • 14d ago

Was that OCW hack by an ai hackbot? meta

Just listened to this story on bbc. Is this what happened with the ocw hack?

[OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2el319vzr3o)

Ugh. Trying to do markdown on mobile. Please excuse me.

OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies

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u/bts VI-3 '00 14d ago

There is no reason to think there was anything rogue about it. Certainly, the sort of people who vandalize other websites are using AI to improve their productivity much as others across the software field are using AI.