A few aspects of this article are strange or not well expressed.
Why does it matter if Cathedral follows some bug bounty rules? Black hats don't follow rules.
And IMO the citation about acting irresponsible when a company "relies on conventional business software" is taken out of context and is about AI safety, not a vulnerability in Slack.
That's not something you want to see before IPO. Wonder if it'll have an effect on the potential investors and thus the stock price. Also wonder if it then would have left-over effect on other AI stocks.
My popcorn is ready, seems we're up for an interesting week or several.
> According to a draft report reviewed by The Washington Post, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.
private to private bribery is illegal, it doesnt matter if you're private or not. this is true in most EU countries, as well as the US, so I'm unsure where you're from
Older discussion with original source (washington post)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241543
MSN access: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-took-just-12-hours-f...
Weird how the original story only got 12 points five days ago, and 3 comments but todays story 22 whilst I am writing this.
Weekend?
Not everything is a conspiracy
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=uxhacker
All politics. I'm afraid it's too late for him :(
A few aspects of this article are strange or not well expressed.
Why does it matter if Cathedral follows some bug bounty rules? Black hats don't follow rules.
And IMO the citation about acting irresponsible when a company "relies on conventional business software" is taken out of context and is about AI safety, not a vulnerability in Slack.
That's not something you want to see before IPO. Wonder if it'll have an effect on the potential investors and thus the stock price. Also wonder if it then would have left-over effect on other AI stocks.
My popcorn is ready, seems we're up for an interesting week or several.
The headline is wrong. It should read:
> AI startup's agent goes rogue, hacks Anthropic, ...
Hacker News really living up to its name these past few days.
I don’t think that’s the definition of “hacker” in the sites name https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
I'm concerned someone will hack Anthropic and release messages tied to people's identity, since you need a non-voip phone number to sign up
Some people trust AI with a lot - financial, health, relationships - and it would all be out there
I also expect open AI to be hacked at some point, but at least with them you can use a throwaway email
And with Gemini, google has had some incidents over the years but given their size and length of existence it's been surprisingly small / secure.
But anthropic is a typical grow-fast startup, with security likely as a secondary concern. Waiting for the shoe to drop.
I'm curious which software was the entry point:
> According to a draft report reviewed by The Washington Post, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.
It's like the hacker that hacks into a company to schedule himself for a job interview
Why wouldn't he just bribe employees like everyone else does?
Bribery is illegal. This? This is just agents doing agent things, and who can blame them. Agents will be agents.
Bribing employees of private companies as a private person is not illegal(well, maybe it is where you live but I can't know the law everywhere).
private to private bribery is illegal, it doesnt matter if you're private or not. this is true in most EU countries, as well as the US, so I'm unsure where you're from
but corporate bribery (lobbying) is absolutely legal...
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