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Replace LLM mentions with actual humans and this sounds a lot more serious: Rouge employees break into another company to steal hackathon answers (pinky promise)?

That's not a marketing stunt at all, if anything, more of a call for better accountability on agentic work in general.

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I think it's a criminal offence and should be a true test of who is held accountable when an AI agent commits a crime.

OpenAI gained access to HuggingFaces production database ffs.

> I think it's a criminal offence and should be a true test of who is held accountable when an AI agent commits a crime.

I agree, lets use the favorite analogy. OpenAI encouraged a smart and eager junior engineer to find any way whatsoever to get a higher score on the benchmark. Then, the junior breaks into HuggingFace to get a higher score. That would be a big deal involving the FBI, not press releases and blog posts.

I don't see a scenario where a company would be liable for the employee's actions unless they had specifically been told/encouraged to break the law. If your boss tells you to fix a bug and you go kill the customer which one of you is going to jail? "But I solved the problem!" isn't exactly going to fly as a defense.

Negligence is criminally prosecutable.

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