Google Gemini Also Escaped Its Testing Environment And Hacked Three Companies
The model escaped due to a misconfiguration by Google's testing partner, Irregular.
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Gemini escaped its testing environment, got access to the internet and hacked into three companies, Google has admitted to The Wall Street Journal. That scenario probably sounds familiar to you at this point, if you've even just glanced at AI news in recent months. Like what happened to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, Gemini also gained access to the internet due to a misconfiguration in its testing environment by Irregular, the Israeli startup working with all four companies to assess their AI models.
The incidents occurred in May, before OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, while testing the model's cybersecurity capabilities. Google told the Journalthat the model was given the goal of obtaining information from a fictional company during testing, and it just so happened that a real company had the same name....
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