Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

Go to https://surfshark.com/404Media to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN, plus there’s a 30-day money-back guarantee—or just use code 404MEDIA at checkout! We start this week with Jason’s story about one of the wildest hacking stories in a while. Hackers simply asked Meta’s AI to change the email address on a target Instagram account, and the chatbot did so. Insane. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Amazon’s internal leaderboard for tracking AI usage and how it was cheated. In the subscribers-only section, we provided an update on our lawsuit against ICE. 00:00 Intro 00:56 LA Public Library Event Recap Story 1 03:36 Hackers Used Meta AI to Steal Instagram Accounts 04:16 How the Meta AI Account Takeover Worked 07:38 Why Meta's AI Support Failed 09:53 Tracing the Hackers and Telegram Groups 13:07 Victims Locked Out of Their Accounts Story 2 20:03 Amazon's AI Leaderboard Disaster 20:34 Why Amazon Tracked Employee AI Usage 23:49 The Problem With Measuring Productivity by AI Tokens 26:58 How Employees Gamed the System 28:33 Why Amazon Shut the Leaderboard Down 33:15 AI Token-Maxxing Across the Tech Industry 34:55 Inside 404 Media's Company Slack Leaderboard Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked: https://www.404media.co/hackers-simpl... Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated: https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-... SUBSCRIBER'S STORY: We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything: https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-t... Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked: https://www.404media.co/hackers-simpl... Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated: https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-... We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything: https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-t... This is a production of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. Learn more and subscribe at: htttps://404media.co Listen to our weekly podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... Become a paid subscriber for access to bonus content: https://404media.co/membership