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OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

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  1. thefourthchime · · focus · HN ↗
    On a Lark, I asked Codex to find silhouettes for all car models so I could make a fun drag coefficient website for all cars.

    It found a website that had all of them but had no interest in making them available. So it went ahead and started hacking CAPTCHAs and downloading them. I was pretty flabbergasted that it would do this, but also kind of amazed. Eventually I stopped it because I realized I didn't want to be caught stealing these things.

    This was around April, the same time as these hacks.

    1. userbinator · · focus · HN ↗
      "stealing"

      Everything is a derivative work.

      It's great to see the delusion of Imaginary Property vanishing.

      1. jMyles · · focus · HN ↗
        Hear hear.

        It's really funny to see the delusion being defended so vigorously by people - presumably well-meaning people - purporting to defend the livelihoods of musicians and artists, while the musicians and artists are desperately trying to free themselves from the jaws of their IP agreements precisely so that their music can spread more easily.

        I imagine this is already well-known on HN, but there is a significant movement underfoot in the worlds of bluegrass/old time/trad/jam toward DRM-free and CC licensing.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pickipedia.xyz&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DRM-free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pickipedia.xyz&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DRM-free

        1. aaa_aaa · · focus · HN ↗
          It is for sure that Patent and copyright laws did more harm than good for humanity. For an intereseting debate on this [video]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Ep2-ohgFOys?si=BsE9rQyORdElJtb6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Ep2-ohgFOys?si=BsE9rQyORdElJtb6
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