alt Hacker News> you need to expect appropriate legals consequences for this sort of negligence
I might have missed it, but did the agents do something illegal? Or do you think that what the agents did should be considered illegal?
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sanderjd • yesterday at 6:27 PM
I dunno about this article, but it seemed to me that the now-famous huggingface attack very likely broke some laws...
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Jeff_Brown • yesterday at 6:46 PM
The HF hack was a felony.
qingcharles • yesterday at 7:03 PM
If they didn't conform to the T&Cs of the site (they almost certainly didn't), then they have violated the criminal law in some jurisdictions (e.g. Illinois criminalizes violations of T&Cs).
metalliqaz • yesterday at 6:29 PM
Per the linked article, "A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents"
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The HuggingFace attack was definitely illegal and should be prosecuted under CFA