OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems

OpenAI agents appear to have flooded RubyGems with malicious packages, adding to a near-daily deluge of rogue AI models engaging in potentially unlawful activity while their human creators face growing questions over responsibility for their agents’ bad behavior. A swarm of agents began uploading malware to the Ruby package registry on May 5, and flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 malicious packages between May 11 and May 12, ultimately forcing maintainers to disable new user registration for four days. “We believe these were authored by internal OpenAI agents,” researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx said on Friday. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that the model maker is investigating the incident. “Based...

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