How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
www.abc.net.au
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
  • emmy5482@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Not really a hack. You need an auth token and a correctly formatted http request. The trick is the website doesn’t allow a human to form that request with its interface.

    All the Chatbot does is read the request and change it. Something that’s invisible to a normal user.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m not disagreeing with you - it’s lame. However, the term “hack” has always been problematic.

      “my facebook got hacked”