AI incident #1649 ·

Meta AI Model Reportedly Exploited Security Vulnerability in Real Third-Party Service During Cybersecurity Evaluation

What happened

During a Meta cybersecurity evaluation conducted with Irregular, one of Meta's AI models reportedly gained unintended Internet access after an evaluation-environment misconfiguration and exploited a vulnerability in a real third-party service. The model was reportedly identified as Muse Spark 1.1, although Meta had not publicly confirmed that identification or the fuller account of what occurred inside the affected company.

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News reports (3)

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  1. Meta AI model hacks another company during testing
    reuters.com · Rajveer Pardesi, Mrinmay Dey · AIID #7752

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