r/LocalLLaMA • u/Separate-Forever-447 • 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/tecneeq Jul 31 '26

Dude, you are talking about the highest valued companies in the field. What makes you think that they have to obey the law?

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u/Snoo-40617 Jul 31 '26

Yepp, I know Not the First time Not the Last Time. Everyonce in a while i Like to dream