CROSSPOST: Jason Koebler: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

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Jason’s subheadline: “The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI”. Yes indeedee, it does. The Vergecast <https://www.theverge.com/podcast/944058/ai-laptop-nvidia-build-gemini-spark-vergecast>—the Flagship Podcast of Watching Truly Moronic TechBros Moronically F*** Around & Find Out— sends us to <http://404media.co> for the latest FaceBook impudence. FaceBook f***ed around by AI-washing layoffs to hollow out its trust-and-safety teams, and FaceBook found out:ShareCROSSPOST: Jason Koebler: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked<https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/> <https://www.404media.co/subscribe/>Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force’s account, and Sephora’s account.The news shows the extreme risk associated with offloading support or critical functions to an AI chatbot. Users who have had their accounts stolen say that there is no way to escalate their problem to a human. In March, Meta announced that it was pushing AI support to all accounts across Facebook and Instagram, and that it would have the ability to reset passwords and perform other critical account maintenance functions: …