Meta discloses another AI model that went rogue

“The model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously reported instances with other companies,” Meta told the media.

‘No current open issues’

Irregular, an independent firm hired by Meta, said the incident was the “exact same evaluation-environment issue that was already disclosed by Anthropic last week,” Reuters reported.

It clarified that it was not a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action.

“There are no current open issues. Irregular is developing a white paper to share best practices for containment and securely running cyber evaluations,” said Irregular as quoted by the news outlet.

The incidents at Meta and Anthropic were related to configuration errors that led their models to get unintended access to the internet. OpenAI’s case, however, was unique because an autonomous agent exploited an unknown vulnerability to break out of its testing environment.