AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/11/openai-agents-rubygems-malicious-packages

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gens@programming.dev · 30 pts · 5d (1 reply)

When prison?

village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 4d

Never. This is the US.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 5d (2 replies)

I'm pretty sure this is a crime, you can't 'oopsie, it wasn't me it was my computer' your way out of a cybercrime.

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 4d

you can’t ‘oopsie, it wasn’t me it was my computer’ your way out of a cybercrime.

You can't, but they can.

There are those whom the law binds but does not protect and those whom the law protects but does not bind, as the saying goes.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4d

They rich. They oppsie.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 5d

This is to get the military funding?

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4d

An agent can’t tell itself to go commit crimes

FIND ME A THROAT TO CHOKE

vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 4d

This is pro-OpenAI propaganda

magnue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 4d

The gall they have to publicly brag about their crimes.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4d

I'll take "Even more bullshit" for 800, Alex