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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

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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. qarl · 1790446159 · focus · HN ↗
  > OpenAI meddled with multiple US Government agency sites.
  But that leaves out the most important information.
  EDIT: Oh, I guess the agent part isn't important then? Seems to me like that's the only thing anyone is talking about.
  1. gizajob · 1790446345 · focus · HN ↗
    If the headline was “Russian company meddled with multiple US government agency sites” I don’t think them pinning the blame on bots would make much difference.
    qarl · 1790446781 · focus · HN ↗
    I don't see much traction for the "pinning the blame on bots" theory outside the anti-AI conspiracy circles.
    Everyone else knows if your machine causes damage, you are responsible. Like it's been forever.
    mossTechnician · 1790447397 · focus · HN ↗
    Blaming bots as "rogue agents" is simply what the media regularly does, often echoing corporate verbiage. Here's an example from the AP.
    <a href="https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregular-openai-0e8061437da6779be962b24ac134a514" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregul...
    You can find many more examples by searching major media outlets for words like rogue AI.
    atmosx · 1790449057 · focus · HN ↗
    And that's exactly what the op was alluding two: the double standards.

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