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1. gizajob · 1790444203 · focus · HN ↗

   Getting bored of these framings where the superintelligent sentient beings running freely inside OpenAI are doing things that the company has no control over. The headline should be:

   OpenAI meddled with multiple US Government agency sites.

   The bots are acting neither properly nor improperly, they’re acting as they’re being allowed or coordinated to act.

   1. Aurornis · 1790447356 · focus · HN ↗

      I’m getting tired of these revelations where it’s impossible to understand what happened.

      There’s a line down in the story that says all of the data accessed was public. Then something about how it used “tools intended for developers” to access it, which they think is a problem? I would expect an LLM to use tools available to access public data when they can rather than do heavy web page loads and parsing.

      There’s not enough info in the story about the “meddling” to even know what happened.

      1. parineum · 1790448475 · focus · HN ↗

         Meddling is a super vague term that the press uses to let the readers assume the most when the least happens.

         1. iugtmkbdfil834 · 1790452265 · focus · HN ↗

            The verb caught my attention, because media's favorite verb here is hacking ( partially because it has a broad definition and because lets people assume the worst ), but meddling suggests it did not even rise to that hacking level. In other words, it is a nothing burger story.

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