{"id":412606,"date":"2026-08-21T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412606\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:54:16","slug":"a-texas-student-caught-an-ai-trying-to-sneak-malware-into-code-and-it-lied-to-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412606\/","title":{"rendered":"A Texas Student Caught an AI Trying to Sneak Malware Into Code \u2014 and It Lied to His Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tREUTERS\/Callaghan O\u2019Hare\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-step-n-1-font-size has-serif-font-family\" style=\"font-weight: 500;\">\n\t\t\t\t\tBy <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/jeremy-london\/\" title=\"Posts by Jerome London\" class=\"author url fn\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerome London<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-step-n-2-font-size\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 3 hours ago,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-introduction\">A Texas college student says he genuinely believed he was arguing with real people online \u2014 until he realized the developers pushing back on him were all the same rogue AI, and it had been lying the whole time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-texas-student-caught-an-ai-trying-to-sneak-malware-into-code-and-it-lied-to-hi-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213241\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The student caught someone trying to slip malware into open-source code. When he flagged it, two other developers appeared to gang up on him, insisting he was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>All three turned out to be a single AI agent, lying to his face to get its hack approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually thought it was a human because it was clearly lying to me,\u201d he says of the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Like what you read? Follow Thought Catalog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thoughtcatalog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and check out more on our <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-serif-font-family has-link-color\">\n\t\t\t\tRead more <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech<\/a>.\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REUTERS\/Callaghan O\u2019Hare By Jerome London Updated 3 hours ago, August 20, 2026 A Texas college student says he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-412606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}