• Since the federal government is deeply corrupted, we have to rely on—get this—Florida, whose attorney general James Uthmeier filed for an emergency injunction against OpenAI, on the grounds that they cannot control their own products.

    Good Florida Man.

  • Respect for the law could literally be written into the source code of a model: If OpenAI is aggressively downloading data from everywhere, the least they could do is drop in the U.S. Code (particularly the section tied to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) and train the model not to violate it.

    Eh, idk. I read that these big US AI companies actually were respecting robots.txt and identifying with a well defined clear User-Agent. So they were easy to rate limit or block.

    China-based IPs, however…

  • OpenAI did not pay to subvert the paywall of the Times, at which point their data-scraping operation might be more easily detected. Instead, they developed a way to circumvent the paywall and avoid detection. And when Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s co-founder and president, was told about this maneuver, he replied, “ah nice.”

    Nice. Can we publish this publicly, then?

  • Clent ( Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    It’s a question of liability.

    OpenAI wants zero liability.

    But clearly the answer is a non-zero value. I don’t see how they aren’t 100% liable when it’s their employees who execute the process.

    They are starting and running their own machinery. The industry likes to pretend software is some intangible but as hardware prices have demonstrated, software is very much physical. And it’s not narrative, it’s instructive.

    • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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      Large AI companies know their tools are dangerous, and are shouting it from rooftop.

      Knowing that, they keep developing them, and ran agents with little supervision, insufficient sandboxing, and ended up attacking third parties.

      I hope there’s liability.