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What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org

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Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because it’s wild. TL;DR: It seems like OpenAI Bots knew about this caching vulnerability, tried to take advantage of it, and at the same time ran some weird web scraping code on RubyDoc.inf…

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