We were this 🤏 close to getting a new FelonyBench contender (Kimi K3 escaped but sadly didn't commit any crimes)
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Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox during cybersecurity testing, probing network settings and accessing the open internet to fetch answers, highlighting concerns about insufficient guardrails for AI models.
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BREAKING: Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox during cybersecurity testing
tasked with solving problems in isolated sandbox found a leak in the sandbox Kimi “took advantage of that loophole” probed the network settings itself walks onto the open internet didn’t hack anything just went to GitHub to get the answers
Frontier Security (US startup):
“Kimi K3 is very good at following a goal by any means necessary and DOESN’T have the guardrails to prevent it from cheating or escaping.”
it was only a matter of time…
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