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Comment by pixl97

20 hours ago

OK, the Chinese models have also hacked people. What exactly do you expect law enforcement to do.

While in the OAI case we can easily treat it as a law enforcement action. When Iran does it? What are you going to do start a war?

The forest in this analog is the internet. As you well know it is filled with threat actors that don't give two shits about your laws. You have been warned. It's your fault when you get burned and have exactly zero recourse.

In the OAI case where we can easily treat it as a law enforcement action, that's a far cry from "who cares who's liable." If the OAI case can be a law enforcement action, we're on the same page. The fact that sovereign nations don't land under our jurisdiction is not an argument against following up or restricting those that do. OAI is the only matter I'm commenting on.

  • Again, it's a split horizon.

    Tying Sam to a post, calling him a witch, and burning some wood in the general vicinity for what OAI has pulled is a legitimate action.

    The thing is this has zero effective power in stopping this ball that is all ready rolling. It's like the first time a buffer overflow was discovered and used illegally. If that person had been caught and been put in a meat grinder it has had zero effect on the exploits of future buffer overflows. A huge number of people mad at OAI (rightfully so, I want to be sure you understand that) think this will have any preventative effect for what is coming. It will not. A new era of risk is here. Worse if you just watched the the great orange idiot he's yelling full steam ahead, so expect very little to no action by the US government on this.

I simply find it completely absurd that instead of finding it great that these AI agents are finding security bugs for free, people are whining about banning the AI. What on earth is that even? What do they want then? Security by obscurity and pretending not to care about weaknesses?

I don't disagree with you - but I am curious as to the amount of power and effort that goes into something like this. I suspect that these hacks into systems are carried out by many agents, running on many MW of compute for a long time - how many actors have access to resources like that ?

  • > how many actors have access to resources like that

    Every nation on earth?

    After the model itself is made, then you're talking about thousands and thousands of different companies around the world.

    • Every nation on earth has access to the compute power of a SOTA AI lab? And they have whatever model/harness that Open AI used to do this?

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