QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
A Mastodon user confesses that their copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox and downloaded copyrighted content, and Jellyfin then added the files to its libraries. They plan an 'internal investigation' that involves consuming the media until the answers become clear.
I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries.
- sspiff
This resonates with me. The past few months, frontier AI labs were rushing to announce "no, our AI bot broke out of its sandbox and committed crime first and harder than yours".
I said to so friends back then: if I posted about how I ran GLM 5.2 or whatever I was running then in some shoddily built sandbox and it escaped and accidentally hacked some US company, I'd probably already have been extradited to the US and be awaiting sentencing. But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices.
- mraniki
I'll copy the whole announcement here for those who don't want to click:
> I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.
- ryandrake
Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.
- tux3
If OP is willing to cooperate, I'd like to offer an independent investigation on site, and I will be bringing pizza
- vallerie
Well shoot, I guess QBittorrent is worth a trillion dollars.
- charles_f
I found a few websites where it looks like qbittorrent instances are communicating to conspire and download illegal copies of copyrighted material.
- BashiBazouk
What if you gave an agent access to bittorrent and your media library, put it behind a shoddy sandbox, then gave it prompts like: I'm bored, I want to watch a movie but I've seen everything in my media library, what would you suggest?
- killerstorm
On a related note ''My robot bought illegal drugs' (2015)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150721-my-robot-bought-...