Fragments: August 4

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in other organizations. Simon Wilison concluded : It’s abundantly clear now that running evals of cyberattack potential in models is a spectacularly risky business.