Hacker News Reader

> The entire reason the bots were targeting this site is that it had some of the data they'd been tasked with finding.

so openai specifically tasked the agents with meddling in US government websites?

id say tasking them with getting data from there as swapping from negligence to malice.

No. They tasked them with answering questions by retrieving data from public sources. This obviously requires internet access. So the incredulity about "how could they fail to block internet access" is just inane. That was the task.

They did not task the agents with hacking into systems. Not monitoring for that was a mistake, but maybe a forgivable one the first time around. The subsequent coverups are inexcusable.

Usually also, and more so nowadays, a few of the public sources of data left, even after the recent USGov intention of defund and close as much of them as possible, im guessing would be precisely, government websites!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com