Comment by gpt5

2 hours ago

I don’t get the sentiment of classifying it as a felony.

OpenAI’s model found security breaches in HugginFace’s system (it wasn’t even OpenAI running it, as it was a 3rd party evaluation company that didn’t secure it well).

OpenAI collaborated with HuggingFace to resolve the issues when they found out about it, and publicly disclosed everything to raise awareness. This is how things should work. These models are very powerful and fully controllable. The community here at the same time cheers for fully releasing the open weight models without any hacking limits and at the same time criticizes a proper response.

Kinda shows how we have moved as a community into moralization and vibes instead of nuance and productive discussion.

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9dev  1 hour ago

Luckily, that isn't how the law works. Or is supposed to work, anyway. You cannot, for example, sell yourself as a slave to somebody else, because slavery is illegal - even if you opt into it.

So whether something is a felony isn't decided by the victim, but the rules of law, and that means breaching a security system without authorization is illegal, no matter what you think.

  • Fricken  29 minutes ago

    I could show up at your doorstep, declare myself at your service, and then spend the rest of my days catering to your every beck and whim. There's no law against that. Can it even be slavery if it's voluntary?

    • 9dev  11 minutes ago

      That's not slavery, because you only declare yourself at my service, but you never sign a contract giving your rights away in exchange for something. That's the part you cannot do, regardless of whether it's voluntary.

atomchild  1 hour ago

we will wait to have the nuanced and productive discussion when openai's model decides it needs to raise more capital by emptying your bank account.

forgetfreeman  2 hours ago

Really? Dudes are catching felony raps for web scraping and you dont see how any of this is felonious?