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I am simply astonished by the leeway AI companies are given. If a company built a tool to hack their competitors and used it, there would be grave consequences.
by smsm42 13d ago
I am simply astonished by the leeway AI companies are given. If a company built a tool to hack their competitors and used it, there would be grave consequences. In fact, if a company built a tool that led to committing multiple felonies against other people, there would be consequences. But once LLMs are involved, turns out nobody is responsible for that - it's just happening, what you're gonna do, agents gonna agent. If you spill toxic chemicals, there would be cleanup costs and fines, and possibly civil and criminal liability to the people in charge. If you spill toxic code, well, nothing? I think it's time to impose some responsibility on them - they are creating these tools, they should be on the hook for everything these tools do.
- reasonableklout 13d agoA coalition of state attorneys general is investigating OpenAI, and Senator Josh Hawley recently launched a congressional investigation regarding the Hugging Face incident: https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/2098137180392604083 https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/2098137180392604083 The problem IMO is the executive. The DOJ is declining to take any action against frontier companies (aside from possibly Anthropic) as the stance of the admin is that the companies are "critical for national security". For example, see the DOJ's request to dismiss the NAACP datacenters lawsuit against xAI: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doj-intervenes-xai-data-center-gas-turbine-lawsuit/823267/ https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doj-intervenes-xai-data-cen...
- smsm42 11d agoWhy anybody needs the DOJ? Each state has it's own police and their own AGs and their own criminal and civil court system. OpenAI is headquartered in California. California has never been shy of using their state resources to enact whatever regulations they want. As for NAACP lawsuit, that's very confusing to me. First of all, why NAACP is doing that? Doesn't seem to do anything with defending civil rights. Second of all, they are suing xAI for using some gas turbines without some paperwork. Maybe it's true, maybe not, but that's something I have very little concern about - gas turbines is not the issue here. We know how to safely use gas turbines. Gas turbines are not going to uproot themselves and go wreak mayhem on the neighboring town. When we have a company that develops dangerous tools that can break the internet infrastructure, gas turbines' paperwork is not something that looks as the first priority issue to me.