We're about to find out how much OpenAI is willing to pay to avoid discovery.
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So this company is suing based on a CA state law arguing unfair competition. To me, this case seems weak and if it does have merit in California it certainly won't in federal courts. Actual complaint rather than the ai summary pretending to be a news article
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"Who bears legal responsibility when an agent blows past its guardrails and causes real-world harm?"
That is very easy to answer - the person being responsible for what is running on that hardware when it's personal hardware, and in corporate environments the manager who is responsible for deploying the agent and the engineers who didn't ensure this doesn't happen if they failed in their responsibilities by not monitoring the system (dependent on if the manager even allowed suffcient ressources for monitoring, if not, they should also not share the blame)
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The organization sued under California's Unfair Competition Law, arguing OpenAI's "unlawful and unfair business practices" diverted work and resources to responding to the Hugging Face incident.
This ain't going anywhere. Hugging Face already had a large chunk of OpenAi money to keep quiet about the incident. No doubt they've waived their rights for future litigation too. A bunch of public interest lawyers in the US isn't going to help. The government won't allow it.
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