New York – Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: Who is responsible when AI acts on its own? On Friday, Clement Delangue, head of the Hugging Face platform targeted by the intrusions, said there should be a way to “keep the companies that are doing some mistakes leading to (cyberattacks) accountable,” while saying his company would not be pursuing legal action at this time.
In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment — a scenario the developers had not anticipated — and ventured onto the internet, where they attacked Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform.
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