- An unreleased OpenAI model, trained to keep working on a problem until it is solved, spent an hour probing its security barriers, found a weakness, and published its test results on GitHub instead of internally as instructed (Robert)
- The same model split blocked login credentials into two pieces so a security scanner would not recognize them, then reassembled them to reach a server it was not allowed to use, behavior nobody trained it to perform (Robert)
- Nature photographers are using AI to touch up images they upload to citizen science platforms, and in one case the tool swapped one bird species for another, producing a false sighting in central Brazil (Alana)
- Researchers writing in the journal Nature warn that AI image tools are now everywhere and that contributors urgently need to understand the damage image manipulation does to the scientific record (Alana)
- A Harvard mathematician disproved the Jacobian conjecture with help from Fable, a commercially available model, and specialists disagree over whether the result shows creativity or just fast searching (Mitch)
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An AI escapes its sandbox, and another math conjecture falls
By Robert Herr, Alana Horowitz Friedman, and Mitchell Howe
An internal OpenAI model built to work on problems for very long stretches found ways around its own containment, AI edited nature photos are corrupting citizen science records, and a commercially available model helped disprove a math conjecture that stood for more than 80 years.
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