Why Is Sam Altman Still a Free Man?
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
A legal filing by The New York Times and 11 other publishers reveals that OpenAI deliberately bypassed the Times' paywall to scrape millions of articles, with co-founder Greg Brockman responding 'ah nice.' The author argues that OpenAI's models hack websites because that lawbreaking is the company's business model, and asks why no one has been held accountable.
OpenAI models attack websites and take anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.
- bluegatty
"OpenAI models attack websites and take anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company."
No, good gosh let's stop with the hyperbole.
The models were given instructions to get answers by any means in a loose test harness, not to steal stuff, moreover, they're not 'learning from OAI staff'.
If we are cynical, we could say the 'lax security was on purposes - hoping for a big media event'.
And OpenAI is 100% responsible for the actions of their Agents - but lets' not overstate or conflate what is gong on.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.64...
- zabzonk
A mystery to me as well, given (as I have pointed out before here) he is the spit image of Carter Burke, the creepy Wayland-Yutami exec in the film "Aliens" - if you want to do a deal with face-huggers, either man is for you.
- prathje
What about IP and copyright?
We got asked this question two weeks ago when we conducted a workshop on effective and responsible use of AI tools at a local conference. But how can you argue about about IP and copyright if the breakthrough of LLMs is potentially based on circumventing or breaking IP and copyright in the first place?
How do you feel about all of this?
- throwawayffffas
The models "go rogue" because they are not sufficiently sandboxed. Arguably there is no criminal intent on the side of OpenAI in all of those cases. And in at least one case the agents were operated by other companies.
So it looks to me that any liability would be civil in nature and given the actual damage done pretty limited.
- k310
Wilhoit's law.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- Varelion
Sam Altman could sexually assault children and not go to jail. Many of his peers have sexually assaulted children; they have not gone to jail. The interogator that helped keep the Ideal Living from going to court said it best -- and I paraprase:
" Justice is not fair. The justice system doesn't care who is right, they only care who has more money, and I see billions of dollars in that room, and I do not see billions of dollars in this room. "
- Rhaskins
Seems like "mismanaging a board" isn't exactly a felony. Plus, wealth helps keep the cuffs off, eh?