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

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  1. sghiassy · · focus · HN ↗
    No company is above the law.

    OpenAI should be accountable for any laws their agents break

    1. ryuuseijin · · focus · HN ↗
      Should it be OpenAI, or should it be OpenAI customers who give the LLM the instructions and provide the LLM with the tools to execute code and make (malicious) network requests?

      One would disincentivise providing capable AI models that can be used for cyber security research. The other would disincentivise criminals from commiting crimes.

      [edit] - I realise now that this could actually be a case of OpenAI running those agents themselves, rather than someone using OpenAI's models? Could OpenAI be that careless?

      1. CGamesPlay · · focus · HN ↗
        In all of the cases that people are referring to in this thread: HuggingFace, that german wiki, Ruby Gems, the Australian statistics page, this UN statistics page... those two parties are OpenAI. OpenAI running their own agents on their own instructions committing crimes with their own computers. This is cut and dry.
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