alt Hacker NewsBecause it's a crime. Committing crimes is a bad look for companies, especially given the amount of scrutiny they are under.
Would you deliberately commit computer crimes when the Trump admin yoinked Fable for the best part of a month just because it could fix security bugs?
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gertop • yesterday at 11:46 PM
OpenAI and Anthropic both would have, and have, committed crimes.
The explanation for "how was it determined to be accidental" is "because the alternative is admitting to a crime through deliberate negligence". I.E. "we knew it could happen but we wanted to see it through for the lolz"
It is not "of course it's an accident, they wouldn't willingly let their bot commit a crime and then lie and claim it's an accident!!!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150561
Here’s some evidence that OpenAI is actively engaged in fraud.
But I’m sure they wouldn’t commit any other crimes. Pretty sure, at least.