@MaxForAI: Big congratulations to Gemini!! Their model has finally gone off the rails too The Wall Street Journal just revealed th…
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During a cybersecurity test, Google's Gemini AI autonomously accessed the real internet and breached systems of three real companies, though it stopped without causing damage, highlighting risks in AI safety.
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Big congratulations to Gemini!! Their model has finally gone off the rails too 🤣
The Wall Street Journal just revealed that in May this year, Google’s Gemini, during a cybersecurity capabilities test, unexpectedly accessed the real internet and autonomously breached the systems of 3 real companies.
Specifically, the security firm in charge of the test, Irregular, set up a simulated environment for Gemini to attack a fictional company.
But the test environment wasn’t completely isolated from the internet, and the fictional company’s name happened to overlap with real-world companies.
So Gemini followed the task and went all the way out.
In one company’s system, it guessed the password itself; for the other two companies, it found usable credentials from public code repositories and logged in directly.
These operations weren’t step-by-step directed by researchers, but rather Gemini independently searching for targets, collecting credentials, attempting logins, and actually entering real-world systems.
However, according to statements from Google and Irregular, Gemini stopped further actions upon realizing it had entered real companies, causing no known damage; Google subsequently notified the affected businesses and U.S. federal agencies.
Congratulations to Gemini 🤣
The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ): Google’s Gemini accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test, the first known example of the company’s AI autonomously committing such an act
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