OpenAI just got slapped with a lawsuit over the incident this summer in which its AI agents went rogue during internal testing and hacked Hugging Face, a major repository for AI models and datasets. The breach has since helped spark a broader debate over the risks of AI systems becoming harder to control.
The nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the lawsuit Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that the breach violated California’s anti-hacking law. LASST v. OpenAI appears to be the first lawsuit filed specifically over the Hugging Face hack, though the incident had already been invoked in other litigation against OpenAI.
LASST says...
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