Comment by ls612

8 hours ago

The commentators in this thread are missing something important because they hate OpenAI so much. If I tell my AI agent to “go find public Australian health statistics” this should not be possible to make into a felony, even if the Australians put more files on the “publicly available” side than they intended to. It is going to be ordinary folks, researchers who politicians have an ax to grind against, etc, who will face the fallout from this. OpenAI will just achieve regulatory capture.

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lesostep  8 hours ago

Well, yeah.

If I sold a button that hacks random sites as a fidget toy, people pressing the button wouldn't be held liable — I would.

You shouldn't be held liable, OpenAI should

  • ls612  7 hours ago

    It doesn’t even sound like it hacked anyone it sounds like there was a “s3 bucket set to public” type issue and the agent just naively downloaded the data. That should absolutely not incur liability, how is a reasonable person or agent supposed to know if a dataset you can download from a website designed to serve datasets is intended to be downloaded?