Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

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We start this week with Jason’s story about one of the wildest hacking stories in a while. Hackers simply asked Meta’s AI to change the email address on a target Instagram account, and the chatbot did so. Insane. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Amazon’s internal leaderboard for tracking AI usage and how it was cheated. In the subscribers-only section, we provided an update on our lawsuit against ICE.

• Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
• Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
• We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

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