OpenAI Hack Highlights Rising Cyber Threats
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Hackers use Anthropic's Claude to break in to open AI. Plus, Russia seizes control of Nestle's operations in the country as the Kremlin cracks down on more Western businesses, and the Bank of Japan follows the Fed in hiking interest rates as more central banks see their inflation fears materialize.
What they had to do is raise interest rates really quite aggressively to tame the inflation that came after both COVID and then compounded by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So this time they don't want to be caught napping again, right? It's Friday, September
18th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. Hackers have revealed an important vulnerability at OpenAI. We are exclusively reporting that independent security researchers used Anthropics AI tool Clawed to gain access to an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account and change the company's core algorithmic code. The researchers reported the flaw through OpenAI's bug bounty program, earning a $6,500 payout. Oxford Analytica Senior cybersecurity analyst Tatya Bokwadza said the hack is concerning, but not for the obvious reasons.
AI Labs have been running this bug hunting programs for a while now. This is intended to identify some of the vulnerabilities that exist in their systems and then address those vulnerabilities and then help those organizations patch them. I think in some ways it is inevitable that cyber vulnerabilities are going to exist even in the most highly sophisticated systems, including AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. This is just one that we heard about. I mean I'm sure there are a lot more that security researchers have been able to identify. The more concerning part here is that these tools are becoming more and more capable. This was a vulnerability that the researchers independently were not able to exploit.
It was the latest version of Claude. And so the more sort of worrying part beyond these tools being used for cyber defense operations is them ending up in the hands of malicious actors like Iranian, Russian, Chinese hacking groups. We've already had reports from many of these AI labs that they were able to stop. malicious operations where Russian and Iranian cyber groups were trying to leverage this Western AI tools for espionage or other kind of adversarial activity.
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OpenAI says the issue has been resolved and that it temporarily reassigned a quarter of its production engineers to audit and bolster its internal cyber defenses. Meanwhile, there has been a major revelation in the high-stakes copyright infringement case involving OpenAI and Microsoft. According to a legal filing unsealed yesterday, top executives at both companies knew that scraping news websites to train their models may eventually damage or even destroy those publications, but they did it anyway. The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in December 2023, alleging that Copilot and ChatGPT trained on millions of pieces of Times content and relied on it to serve up answers to users. The tech companies have argued that their actions constituted fair use and that their use of the material was ultimately transformative.
In one internal Microsoft document, Director of Applied Science, Science Brent Hecht warned that the company's AI strategy had started a doom loop that would harm both the models and the entire web at the same time. Many publishers have historically relied on web traffic to generate ad revenue and gain new subscribers. Wall Street Journal Parent News Corp has content deals with OpenAI and Meta, and two News Corp subsidiaries have sued another AI company perplexity.
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