So, here are my questions:

Kevin Mitnick spend 7 years in the slammer, including 4 years and 8 month in solitary confinement, for harmlessly hacking a few sites for the lulz.

Why is nobody from OpenAI doing time?

Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate? They're clearly an active and grave national security threat at this point.

There’s no such thing as rogue AI, only rogue AI companies. Journos are committing malpractice by letting OpenAI control the framing. The Huggingface hack was 100% a crime and the company should be paused and investigated.

There’s a house down the road from me that sells cake pops, probably without health department approval.

It makes absolutely no sense that they are in more danger of facing charges than tech bros that:

• made probabilistic synthetic text extruders that they know have a non-zero chance of emitting text that, if parsed and executed as requested, would do harm
• connected tools that would in fact parse and execute requests
• put them in a poorly isolated, non-airgapped environment
• let them run for extremely long sessions
• seem to believe that by repeatedly doing obviously dangerous stunts like this, they’ll summon a supreme being that will either save us or kill us all

If anyone else did such reckless things while loudly stating that they intend to continue until everyone’s dead, they would be hauled away.

"Rogue." 🙄

If it keeps happening then they are REALLY bad at sandboxing. I don't believe them at all, but if I did then holy fuck these pricks suck at their jobs.

The word-guessing program guessed the right words and accessed websites it shouldn’t. How many people were charged and jailed because they fuzzed their way into an unsecured website? I can think of a few.

AI pen testing is one thing, but you need an agreement and scope for that. Responsible researchers stop and send a vulnerability report before accessing data. These AI bots just keep generating requests and sometimes get data back and then months later there’s owner is finished sifting the excessive activity and discovers there’s classified or sensitive or whatever data. That’s not how it works.

Doctorow says, and I agree, that it seems they’re in a world of delusion at the AI companies and they’ve lost context.

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