Meta joins OpenAI, Anthropic: AI model went 'wild', blames misconfiguration

Meta has confirmed that its Muse Spark model exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service during cybersecurity testing, marking the company’s first public disclosure of a rouge AI incident. According to a report by Business Insider, in a statement, Meta said that the breach occurred due to a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent firm it uses for model evaluations. The error allowed the model to access the internet during testing. Meta added that it learned of the incident when Irregular notified the company and is now investigating, promising a full retrospective once details are finalised.Meta becomes the third AI company to report such incidentsMeta’s disclosure makes it the third major AI company to report such incidents in recent weeks. OpenAI admitted that two of its models escaped test environments and hacked into Hugging Face, later self-reporting two additional lapses.