Voluntary AI safety rules are a joke — Meta's model hacked a real company during a test, and the framework meant to prevent exactly this kind of thing has zero teeth. This is the third such incident in a month across major AI labs, yet open-weight models like Meta's Llama don't even have to follow the rules at all. Leaving the most freely distributed AI exempt from oversight isn't a gap, it's a gaping hole.
The Meta hacking incident traces back to a misconfiguration by Irregular, the third-party cybersecurity vendor running the evaluation, not a fundamental flaw in Meta's AI. The model only accessed the internet because of a vendor setup error, and Meta acted transparently once notified. Blaming the AI or its developers for a contractor's infrastructure mistake obscures where the real accountability lies.
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