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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Considering you can just… you know, do that in any of the LLM prompts in Meta apps… I really don’t think it’s the work of a “hacker”. That’s such an obnoxiously overused term.

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have to disagree. Hacking is a broad term that isn't exclusive to finding buffer overflows in ghidra.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Social engineering is hacking. This is something between SE and prompt engineering.

[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

I know hacking more as using a system in a way that is not intended, which this definitly is

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was watching a speedrunner live stream, and just the way he thinks...

The way speedrunners think is basically how pentesters think.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The original meaning of the word "hacking" is just "to get something to work in a way it was not meant to work".

So the hacker mindset of finding workarounds or unforseen scenarios applies to a lot of things, not just devices and systems (such as games) but also human processes.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The majority of hacking is social engineering, so I don't really see slop hacking being any less valid than that

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly you're on to something here.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

🎶 social engineering 🎶

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

🎶 it gives you that fuzzy feeling 🎶

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Social" suddenly feels like the wrong word for it, when the entity being fooled is a next-word-predictor algorithm.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 2 weeks ago

Hacking is gaining unauthorized access to a system. The method doesn't matter.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

You need more technical knowledge than for Social Engineering.

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Vibe hacking it is

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's LLM injection

[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

yeah kinda seems like they designed it to work this way on purpose.
Just forgot to make it verify the account.