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For months, OpenAI's agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

HUMANS are accountable for 100% of this.

Start slapping cuffs and it stops. They want regulation - regulate them into 6’ cells

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

This is 100% the case. If an engineering firm fucks up and a bridge of building collapses or a CPU lacks working floating point arithmetic, they're going to pay out the nose for it.

They're running around pretending they can't control any of this, but without giving a language model access to a shell or something, what the fuck can it do?

We have to deliberately grant these abilities. Otherwise, they don't exist.

[-] Eril@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago

I have been very confused so far this year, that every other week we hear about some company/country being attacked by an AI, but then everyone going "oh well, nothing anyone can do anything about. What a pity".

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

OpenAI staff have been attacking public databases with various internal tools. Charges have yet been laid.

[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Seems a little too convenient that a company, which desperately relies on data to train its models, has an oopsy involving its agents hacking numerous databases and stealing data.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Do the computer intrusion and hacking laws require intent? If not, these should be open and shut cases of criminal acts stemming from negligence.

“But nobody was harmed and nobody profited!”

Degrading access to databases harms the authorized users. The AI firms are profiting from this daya theft.

[-] DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Finally, AI does something relatable.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

that is why they found reddit to be less useful, which was typified by the drop in traffic. so they are going after other online sources. probably after free peer-review research paper(although they have been using cloudflare)

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Smoke em while you got em. They gotta secure their competitive edge before legislation catches up.

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