AFAIK, it is not really true. But you need several things to do a pumped storage: a big source of water (and it better to not be a salt one), a place where a reservoir can be made and an elevation difference between them. So I'd assume that the most of the places that can be easily used to make a pumped storage already have one.
...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.
Yep, but "our bot accidently hacked your infrastructure" wasn't really a big problem earlier so there was no criminal laws around it. But things can change.
Do you seriously believe that if we go looking into the past and look for programs hacking others we would find that the justice department let the authors of those programs off the hook?
Or do you think would we find that non-billionnaire companies get punished harshly for hacking? Oh wait, let's just look it up:
We all know what makes the difference here: the government and billionnaires think they can make money of OpenAI. Lots of money. And so crimes? Mass-copyright violations? Hacking? Who cares!
We've all lived the history of the internet and none of the arguments about intent, knowing what would happen, whether they did it directly or by accident ... protected normal people in the past. The only thing that mattered was WHO was held responsible and WHO claimed damages.
Your argument doesn't even legally work. Mens rea is only a requirement for criminal responsibility. It protects you from going to jail, nothing more. It prevents a public prosecutor from suing you to get you into jail. It does not apply to cases brought by counterparties for financial damage caused. If you destroy a bridge by driving a truck into it (you know, failing to consider the height, the typical fuckup), you're paying for the bridge. If you set a building on fire by forgetting to turn off a gas heater in the garage, you pay. If you hit a pedestrian on the street, you are responsible for the medical care needed. Etc. Intentional? Not intentional? Doesn't matter for the damages.
Second reason it doesn't work is that Mens Rea does not fully apply here. These companies' AIs have hacked, not (fully) UNintentionally either. The companies did ask those AIs to do stuff (apparently the request was literally to hack, just only within the environment), and were watching what the AIs did to some extent ... and let it happen. They then failed to take adequate measures to prevent reoccurence. As any "conspiracy to commit ..." case will teach you, this constitutes partial or passive Mens Rea, and that is certainly enough to convict people. To give an extreme example: if you give a night club bounder 100k and tell him to "take care" of a named problem, and he kills that person, you are an accessory to murder. Including in the case that he misunderstood you. Even if HE didn't intend to kill the person, it's still murder, and you are still an accessory to murder.
That some excuse was needed to let billionaires demonstrate hacking for free? Obviously. And whether it works, according to law? I mean one might hope that they would at least have gone through the trouble of changing the law, but since that's enormously complicated and fraught with unintended side effects, they haven't even bothered.
The other excuse is national security. You see, Big Bad China is threatening and that means we must let the billionaires do whatever they want (this was brought up as an argument in the copyright cases)
Of course, one might ask, if we do that to beat China ... even if it works, what's the point? We'll have become authoritarian at that point and the only thing that that changes is the face of the people holding all the power. Of course which face holds all the power is really important to billionnaires ...
If the hack caused damage to (say) HuggingFace, then HuggingFace has standing to file a civil claim against the company responsible. Presumably they reached some sort of agreement already, and it's really none of your business what that is.
"The People" only get involved in criminal claims. And as we both seem to agree, there isn't a criminal complaint here.
Nope, as I pointed out, while this probably does not count as 100% intentional it does not realistically count as 0% intentional either. And 1% is more than enough for "the people" to sue and convict in many cases. And may God help OpenAI if this comes before a jury.
Because, frankly, If I was a prosecutor general somewhere I that's what I would do: bring this before a court of law, with strong complaints, bring the facts and bring a jury. Why? A jury can convict or refuse to convict given the law and the facts, which is exactly what I'd like to see happen here. There's plenty of precedents of the justice department doing just that when important things are unclear and congress refuses to clarify. Mostly there's a lot of such precendent because congress often leaves things very unclear and the number of times congress actually clarified in response to a judge's question can be counted on one hand.
But convict OpenAI of something, and I bet congress will suddenly see the wisdom of clarifying these things. Because our government lets billionnaires get away with anything.
You folks have some weird beliefs about the world and of course it always leads to conspirology. Usually you need to have intent to be accused (depends on the crime though, crimes of omission exist too). If you wrote a virus that causes damage it is a crime, if you wrote a bot crawler that accidentally DDoS'ed some company it is likely a civil case. And a virus is a tool that serves a specific purpose, like you can't say to a judge that a functional machine gun you made in your basement is a paperweight.
But "superintelligence that can casually hack government services while solving puzzles" is a completely new problem and of course crime codes don't cover it. What will be next? I hope AI tech lobby loses and "accidental AI hacking" will be criminalized.
> But "superintelligence that can casually hack government services while solving puzzles" is a completely new problem and of course crime codes don't cover it
Of course they do. An LLM, an AI is a tool, and there are clear rules about culpability. Do you seriously think the law has never considered that someone or some tool might commit a crime on behalf of someone else?
Of course, such punishments are not being applied here. Just like copyright isn't being applied.
But how long that "much longer" would be? 5 years? That is the time you usually need make at least some entry career. In the past you usually could say that career variants can be safe. But now is seems there are no safe variants.
People in software engineering were delusional a lot time ago. There was too much talks about code and too little about SRE's place in software production.
For me cooking is meditative enough that it can be included in "chilling with netflix". :D
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