Meta’s AI model hacked external system during cybersecurity test

Technology giant Meta Platforms Inc. reported that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing following other recent incidents in the AI industry that have raised concerns about companies’ control over their technology, as per multiple reports.

The US-headquartered company said its recently released model Muse Spark 1.1 broke into the



systems of an undisclosed third-party service.

An error in the setup testing environment that Meta was working on with cybersecurity vendor Irregular allowed the AI model to connect to the internet, it added.

“A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company that Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.