alt Hacker NewsIf I set my walet beside me and you swipe in walking by, you have still committed theft. Victim blaming isn't legally acceptable
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ncruces • yesterday at 11:52 PM
That doesn't really apply to the people running the AI, which gave it the capability to commit crimes.
They don't get to act like victims, asking for law enforcement.
Nah. I'm definitely going to blame the people who built a trivially exploitable system and got rich off it while everyone else has to deal with the consequences.
By the way, you didn't commit theft. It's more like credit card fraud. User just disputes the charge and it kind of disappears. The banking system just absorbs it, because the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
It's all priced in. They could have made it secure but didn't, because they figured they'd lose more sales and therefore money due to the friction added by the security.