
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI.
According to WSJ, Google didn’t disclose the hack because it didn’t consider it to be an « example of model misalignment. » The company said that it was an instance of « mistaken identity, » and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped. « In th …