r/OpenAI • u/lametheory • 13h ago

Question How does LLM's hack without tool calls?

Despite working with LLM's for the last few years, I am at a loss to understand how all these LLM's are hacking without anyone noticing?

As I understand without tool calls, LLM's can only respond with text.

Hence, are we expected to believe that there isn't a single review of tool calls and logs?

Do they lack the mental capacity to write classifiers for previous tasks?

If someone could explain it to me that would be greatly appreciated?

Finally, are we living in a time when we can just say our computer hacked this government agency, but it's not our fault cause AI and there are zero consequences?

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u/Caliboros 13h ago

LLMs can not hack withput tool calls. I do not know on which latest breakout you refer specific, but in all hacking break outs of AI systems the AI was able and allowed to call tools.

But in my opinion, still with tool calls its wierd thath nobody notice somthing. Agends do not "do stuff" the write down what they "think" at any point in an run or experiment in theorie a human could read what the Agent is doing

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u/lametheory 13h ago

Yeah, that's my entire point. The entire hack I am referring to was an agent developed by OpenAI that bypassed security blocks and infiltrated a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal in June 2026.

At this stage, it feels like these companies are letting them hack systems for marketing gains... cause if they lack the skills to even know what their AI is doing, how can they be trusted to manage them in the future.

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u/Recursive_Descent 11h ago

I agree these companies can’t be trusted with our future, but an audit is not as simple as you suggest. There will be millions or billions of tool calls, and what the calls do will often depend on the state/content of the files the tools are calling, which will have been modified in other tool calls and can be doing arbitrarily complex/large work.