Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Who could have seen this coming?

Moderation and support teams are one of the most difficult and expensive problems in running social media platforms.

“Social Engineering” is a well known attack vector in cyber security. I can recommend “The Art of Deception” by Kevin Mitnick (or just read his wikipedia page, it’s wild).

On Instagram I can’t even click the “more” button half the time. I have scroll to a certain point

In the future we will all be able to get free cheeseburgers from the Wendys AI vending machine just by asking nicely.

I’m not surprised. Now imagine that level of ai stupid in everything that runs the globe for humanity.

Because that’s what’s coming.

This is incredibly stupid, anyone working with LLM’s should understand that even if there would be tool to send the verification email and check it, it will fail certain amounts of time. Password reset is not a feature that should sometimes just let you in, that needs to be exact.

This is why ai shouldn’t have the power to make management decisions and shouldn’t be scanning through everyone’s private photos

A tech at IBM said that decades ago

It makes mistakes all the time