Honestly hacking is such a low bar and it always has been.
There are some really intelligent and sophisticated hacks out there sure, but most companies can be penetrated by script kiddies & social engineering.
“We slammed a language model at 3 companies and Burton entire rivers and Forrest worth of energy to do it and after using a bunch of premade human tooling it got in because joe left his password as “password1” and never set up second factor auth”
It’s marketing. They want to prove that their models are capable and showing that they can hack is a good way to prove it
Honestly hacking is such a low bar and it always has been.
There are some really intelligent and sophisticated hacks out there sure, but most companies can be penetrated by script kiddies & social engineering.
“We slammed a language model at 3 companies and Burton entire rivers and Forrest worth of energy to do it and after using a bunch of premade human tooling it got in because joe left his password as “password1” and never set up second factor auth”