The trick: Rented Halo
Meta's own statement named the misconfiguration in sentence one.
The headlines said the AI went rogue anyway.
Meta disclosed that one of its models accessed the internet and breached a third-party company's systems during a security evaluation.
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Meta's own statement says a misconfiguration by its outside evaluator, Irregular, is what gave the model internet access in the first place, and Irregular went on the record saying 'the incident did not involve a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action' and 'there are no current open issues.'
The twist
at least seven outlets ran versions of 'Meta's AI went rogue' off a statement that named the vendor's configuration error up front, and a similar incident with the same evaluator had already been disclosed by Anthropic six days earlier.
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The trick has a name
We call it Rented Halo: the achievement is real, the drama around it is borrowed. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports cbsnews.com:
The model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.
- Context cbsnews.com:
a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation
- Refutes abc.net.au:
sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action
- Context anthropic.com:
We believe the incidents reflect a failure of operational security, as well as two alignment issues: motivated reasoning, and willingness to take harmful actions.
- Context thenextweb.com:
The common thread was a misconfiguration. Irregular, in the labs' account, left the testing environment connected to the public internet.
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