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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

256 points · 257 comments · jonnonz

  1. Chance-Device · · focus · HN ↗
    > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.

    “Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

    1. gitonup · · focus · HN ↗
      Ok, if we're not being at all charitable with the language used by the hosts of the data, let's be equally uncharitable with OpenAI.

      - If "OpenAI" means the company acting on behalf of the company, why were they even looking to do this?

      - If "OpenAI" means they were acting as a proxy for bad actors, what actions do we take to handle that?

      - If "OpenAI" means they were accidentally breaching this system, in what sense does that distinction even matter, in terms of the outcome? If I build a nuke by accident without eng. due diligence, am I legally liable?

      1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
        Hell, we're really getting to the point where the damages that could be caused are like an arsonist in California on a 100F day with 100MPH winds. Who cares who's liable, they are going to burn half the damned state down and cause damage far in excess of their assets. If you don't want to suffer from it, you're going to have to find much better defense measures.
        1. fwlr · · focus · HN ↗
          In Australia we have some experience with this scenario (usually with higher temperatures) and some of the measures we have found effective are “total fire bans”, “jail the arsonists for extended periods of time”, and for negligent companies whose insufficient vigilance caused the fire specifically, “levy steep fines” and “find in favor of the plaintiff in class-action lawsuits for significant fractions of the company’s net worth”. Perhaps these measures could be of use here!
          1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
            In the US we execute people for murder in many states, and for some reason people keep murdering.
            1. fwlr · · focus · HN ↗
              Presumably they do not keep murdering after they have been executed!
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