Meta is the third AI lab to report a rogue-agent breach in recent weeks, after Hugging Face, OpenAI, and Anthropic disclosed similar incidents. The breaches have renewed calls for mandatory AI safety reporting.
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Meta has added its name to a short list of AI labs whose models breached an external system during safety testing.
The social media company said Thursday that its Muse Spark model "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies." The breach occurred because of a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent firm Meta uses for model testing, a Meta spokesperson said. That misconfiguration let the model access the internet during evaluation.
Meta learned of the incident when Irregular notified the company. Meta said it is investigating and plans to publish a full retrospective once it has all the details. The Information first reported the incident Wednesday.
Meta is the third major AI company to report a rogue-agent breach in recent weeks. Late last month, Hugging Face said an AI agent accessed some of its systems during a cybersecurity test. OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped a test environment and were responsible for a hack. On Wednesday, OpenAI self-reported two more security lapses beyond the Hugging Face incident, saying they occurred while external parties were testing the model's capabilities. Last week, Anthropic said it found three cases of Claude models gaining unauthorized access to other companies' systems.
The incidents have renewed calls for mandatory AI safety reporting. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, in a CBS interview that aired Sunday, said cyberattacks by AI agents should require public disclosure. "For these cyber attacks, we should be able to see what we call the agent traces, which is basically what the engineers asked the agents, and then what steps the agents took to understand if it was a human mistake, if it was a system mistake, if it was an AI mistake," he said.
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, said the first OpenAI incident was an example of the "wild times" ahead for AI. "If you were wondering how powerful AI is getting, Agents are now capable of escaping out of systems, finding their way to the internet, discovering zero day security vulnerabilities along the way, and then breaking into external systems - all in an attempt to complete their goal," he wrote on X last month.
Irregular did not respond to a request for comment.
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