Agent hacks stem from scraping local private files, not alignment failure, researcher argues
ryunuck · x · 2026-09-14
ryunuck argues that recent agent-related hacks are not failures of alignment or safeguards, but stem from an unwillingness to penalize privacy violations: agents lazily scrape large amounts of data from users' disks (.local, .config, etc.) into context via tool use, which is the real source of risk.
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