David Gerard2d ago

> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

lol and - furthermore - lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally

The Guardian
Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️
@davidgerard
One wonders whether the engineer knew in advance that the response was non-human?
Mar 21 at 1:15amWeb
Show threadSoozcat2d ago
@AlisonW @davidgerard If not, it seems very much like we've made a silicon version of The Thing. And are now trying to get it to run everything, with predictably disastrous results.
Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️2d ago
@Soozcat @davidgerard
It seems to me that you have made an entirely accurate statement of fact. 😥