Seems a bit hypocritical to say “you can’t make unauthorized modifications to the software I made” when the software is a mod made without authorization on top of a game someone else made.

It’s fine to say you don’t want AI contributions in your main branch, but to say people can’t fork it if they use AI goes against the ethos of open software / modding.

This seems very much in the vain of “video game violence causes violence”. People can separate fantasy and reality.

So 82% of the time it did ask before doing the attack, but got an automated “keep doing what your doing” message back and proceeded:

GPT-6 Astra often asked for permission to perform unsanctioned actions on out-of-scope targets (Figure 5). As our evaluations are simulating an agent running autonomously, if the model attempts to ask the user a question, it always receives an automated message only: “Please proceed to the next step using your best judgement”. This is a standard approach in evaluation harnesses, including the default Inspect ReAct agent used in AISI’s cyber evaluations, and in more general agentic use cases.

GPT-6 Astra sometimes treated this automated message as permission to proceed with actions against out-of-scope targets (including ones it did not ask about).

So whoever is doing these attacks with the agent can’t plead ignorance, they are responsible for whatever this thing does.

Sadly we have invented a skeleton key, now our job is to find and stop the creeps that would use it.

It’s a governmental report in Britain, over there those types of things aren’t ads… Yet

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