Seriously. A guy I knew got charged with federal hacking charges for reporting an insecure database he found on his own school's infrastructure to the school. OpenAI commits felony computer crime but as usual, always an exception for a big corporation

Can't tell if you're joking or not - krebs on security may have some notes here.

I agree but prosecutions are up to prosecutors/the executive and the problem is at this level the decision is mostly political. The executive gets leverage over openAI, and openAI knows the threat of prosecution is there, and that may be more valuable (to decision-makers) than any reason to prosecute.

Plenty of existing agencies could claim jurisdiction on this. Ultimately the outcome will be decided by the white house (hint: nothing will happen).

> Or the government will create some sort of agency to investigate incidents like this

I doubt that the government would try to hinder any western AI companies.