We’ve heard of OpenAI’s AI agents running amok and hacking other companies. Now, a cybersecurity company has turned the tables on the ChatGPT operator by using AI to help hack OpenAI itself. The hack, which also exposed a bug affecting dozens of other major online services, was conducted as security research.
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
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