Comment by athrowaway3z

Let me leave yet another reminder, the real-reason-nobody-talks-about that OpenAI likes to frame these incident as a watershed "lets all be scared about safety moment" - is driven not by some great danger, not because they strategically want to build a legislative moat, but by a very simple human response.

If they do not frame their tool as a force of nature, we'd be debating how to hold OpenAI responsible for not putting the agents in a container.

Their actions were an illegal use of a computer, the same way launching any bot-net attempting thousands of hacks against different servers is illegal.

I'm somewhat radical that I think its debatable if that _should_ be illegal, but under current law their actions unambiguously are illegal.....

except if they can make it ambiguous by having the public focus on all of AI's inherent danger.