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OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

256 points · 198 comments · rudy6912

cmiles8 · 1790245264 · focus · HN ↗
It’s only a matter of time until one of these causes real damage to the wrong party and OpenAI finds itself drowning in years of litigation for settlement amounts they can’t possibly ever pay in their current financial state.
On the present trajectory we’re 24-36 months away from another company inheriting the smoking wreckage of OpenAI as scraps handed over as compensation for damages.
1. MattGaiser · 1790249003 · focus · HN ↗
  It depends. Society allows a lot of harm because we consider things otherwise useful.
  Those killed by climate change will never get compensation. Killing people with a car is not quite free, but very cheap.
  1. lez · 1790251038 · focus · HN ↗
    And what is the mechanism by which society could stop such AI damage and push for punishment as per law, not per subjective usefulness? Voting every 4 years to a president that never fulfills his promises?
    No, society does not want corporations with no responsibilities.
    MattGaiser · 1790255834 · focus · HN ↗
    > No, society does not want corporations with no responsibilities.
    It voted otherwise.

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