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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. ddj231 · 1790454281 · focus · HN ↗
  Seems like part of the danger of AI is the ability for folks to put blame for crimes on the AI rather than themselves and thus commit those crimes freely. “I didn’t hack your systems, it was my ai”
  1. LoganDark · 1790469958 · focus · HN ↗
    People wouldn't have that ability if we didn't keep believing them. Need to start holding operators accountable for the damage of their machines.
    "Sorry officer, I didn't drive through a house and kill three innocent people, it was the car that did it. I only turned the steering wheel, but the car was the one to veer off the highway and crash into the building"

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