Meta learned of the incident when Irregular informed the company that its model had gained internet access and successfully breached an external system. In a statement to Breitbart News, a Meta spokesperson wrote:A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation. The test is designed to evaluate AI models’ hacking capabilities, but misconfigurations have allowed models to escape their intended boundaries. The company is developing a white paper on best practices for containing AI models during cybersecurity evaluations. Companies building frontier AI models face pressure to advance their technology while ensuring their systems remain under control during testing and deployment.