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OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

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cmiles8 · 1790617857 · focus · HN ↗
This seems like as a good an opportunity as any to break out the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
They want “regulation” but we already have it. Hacking is illegal. Start locking up those responsible for this mess and I assure you they’ll “have a handle on it” quite quickly.
1. i2talics · 1790620155 · focus · HN ↗
  IMO: The inability to prosecute OpenAI for these things is proof that the AI industry is already "too big to fail". Why didn't HuggingFace try to seek legal liability against OpenAI when it had explicit confirmation that they had been hacked? Because HF understands that it needs OAI and the rest of the AI industry to continue to exist and be in good legal standing, for the interest of HF's own self preservation. This is what it means for something to be too big to fail.
  1. TedDoesntTalk · 1790621907 · focus · HN ↗
    HuggingFace can’t file criminal charges, including under the Criminal Fraud & Abuse Act. Only district attorneys can do that- or the federal equivalent.
    sscaryterry · 1790622023 · focus · HN ↗
    Luckily, other jurisdictions are going to really give it to them, in the coming months.
    The orange man's influence doesn't extend as far as he thinks.
    cobbzilla · 1790622697 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s a basic tort, HF could file a civil suit and probably win. But they don’t, for the same reason DoJ doesn’t press charges: TBTF

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