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Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Because nobody did it on purpose?

That's why its so concerning.

Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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post #8

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Because nobody did it on purpose?

Nobody stole from humanity, constantly told us how dangerous the invention was, and then set up systems that they couldn’t properly control to rush ahead of their competitors? Nobody did that on purpose? I think they did.

Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we are going to start punishing companies for security negligence, there are WAY worse cases than these models breaking out that have nothing to do with AI. This is bikeshedding at its best. Also people would just stop disclosing bad things. You already see this in the airline industry where pilots don't report mental illness because of the retributive nature of the punishment.

Please tell me about such cases, genuinely interested. I still think we should take the opportunity to discuss this case in particular.

There have been data breaches where the SSNs and PII of millions of people have been exposed. That is far more harmful in real terms than any of the OpenAI/Anthropic mess.

Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

I think this is a logical extension of the workplace rule of "you own what your bot writes;" it's hypocritical not to hold corporations to the same standards as individuals (I say, with terminal naiveness)

Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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post #6

Prediction: AI ends humanity not via some super cool/scary/robopocalypse - but as a marketing stunt gone wrong when a Frontier LLM accidentally knocks out water/electric/gas by hacking in and trying to patch them. Phillip K. Dick meets Idiocracy.

OpenAI and Anthropic vs Brawndo Corporation. The final showdown.
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