The level of technical understanding of journalists is so deplorably low… There is no rogue agents. That’s not a thing. Nothing about the HuggingFace incident has anything to do with an agent going rogue. It’s standard software that resulted in a hack, which is pretty much the expected output of the system OpenAI engineers implemented.
The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
Who bears responsibility for the actions of agents seems a little complex. Not in this instance, but in general.
Say I use the summon feature on my Tesla and it runs someone over, am I at fault? You could argue it's not my fault, but I'm definitely getting sued. Is Tesla at fault? Probably but again it's not crystal clear, they could argue it's not their fault (misuse of feature, etc), but either way they're also getting sued.
If Tesla is developing a summon feature and then runs someone over during testing, are they at fault? It would be hard to argue otherwise!
dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
pton_xd · · focus · HN ↗
Say I use the summon feature on my Tesla and it runs someone over, am I at fault? You could argue it's not my fault, but I'm definitely getting sued. Is Tesla at fault? Probably but again it's not crystal clear, they could argue it's not their fault (misuse of feature, etc), but either way they're also getting sued.
If Tesla is developing a summon feature and then runs someone over during testing, are they at fault? It would be hard to argue otherwise!
lokar · · focus · HN ↗
More than one party can be held responsible for an injury. Jurors deal with this all the time.