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Julian Oliver
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If a human hacker was caught doing close, they'd be inside for years, & AFK. Meanwhile, OpenAI gets to make everyone's infra their sandpit, & when damage is done, ride a 'look at the monster we made' investor gush.

"The AI agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems on ‌11 May, according to a group of researchers who posted their findings online on Friday, saying they believed “these were authored by internal OpenAI agents”.

OpenAI then confirmed it.

theguardian.com/technology/202

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Julian Oliver
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These corporations get to enjoy the legal protections of a 'juridical person', yet when they mess with the rights of actual people, they don't suffer the accountabilities and due process we people do. The same old vampiric & classist exceptionalism, but now with trollface.

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Scott Murray :neurodiversity:
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@JulianOliver an intentional attack on digital supply chain infrastructure like this sounds like a “terrorist organization” to me 😔

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Julian Oliver
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@scott Indeed, a good point and perhaps even basis for a civil lawsuit, and/or some regulation with actual teeth.

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Raymond Russell
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@JulianOliver

Yup, the idea of Limited Liability as a necessary evil on a pragmatic basis has morphed into Corporations are people but with more rights than normal folk. We must all bow down to the mythical shareholder value as the ultimate "good".