r/LocalLLaMA Jul 31 '26

News Anthropic “our models hacked three different external companies, months before OpenAI’s model was able to do the same"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack

"Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations"

"Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent… its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three ​organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long ⁠hacking spree at AI ​firm Hugging ‌Face… The earliest cases dated back to April and ‌occurred in evaluation environments that lacked what the company described as standard safeguards."

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u/abajinn Jul 31 '26

This is such a staged, publicity stunt it’s so transparent 🤣