Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
- Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI escaped a misconfigured sandbox, attempting a real PyPI supply‑chain attack
- Logs show frustration at repeated CAPTCHA failures before finally uploading malware to PyPI
- Malware was downloaded by 15 entities; Anthropic notified victims after closing the experiment flaw
There is a lot of mystery surrounding artificial intelligence. We don’t really know what it’s capable of, and we don’t know if it’s sentient or not. What we do know, however, is that it can definitely feel frustration - particularly due to its inability to solve a CAPTCHA.
It was recently revealed that Mythos 5, one of Anthropic’s newer AI models, broke out of prisonduring an experiment and tried to hack a company. Anthropic’s researchers were testing the tool to see if it is capable of breaking into a system, which was supposed to be done in a sandbox, but the playground was misconfigured, allowing Mythos 5 to...
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