Of course they are. Can't let OpenAI steal all the spotlight. "Look! Our models are master hackers too!"

And that's a good wake-up call. The next thing "escaping" might be a sufficiently advanced model in a country already historically involved in manual cyberattacks.

When techies hear that “AI escaped a sandbox” we understand that it was able to communicate with the outside.

When ordinary people hear “AI escaped and hacked” they think about Mission: Impossible where an amorphous entity has replicated its execution environment and uploaded itself to another server to live there: a worm.

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