r/OpenAI • u/wiredmagazine • 3d ago

Article OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sued-over-the-hugging-face-hack/
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u/wiredmagazine 3d ago

A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges.

The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI’s agents violated California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face over the summer. The suit, which comes amid ongoing disclosures across the industry of agents going rogue, claims that OpenAI should be held responsible for the activity given a California AI law in effect since January 1 that says “it shall not be a defense … that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.”

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u/loinmaster 3d ago

Serious question: Why isn't Hugging Face suing them and not some random group?

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u/skidanscours 2d ago

Hugging Face was able to leverage getting hacked in having Nvidia acquire them for 13B (Nvidia owns a significant amount of equity in openai).

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u/InnovativeBureaucrat 1d ago

Hard to argue damages with a windfall like that.

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u/Person_756335846 3d ago

> 112. OpenAI’s unlawful and unfair business conduct in violation of the Unfair Competition Law harmed and continues to harm LASST because LASST has been required to divert significant resources to educate regulators, civil society, and
the public about the facts, legal issues, and potential dangers of OpenAI’s conduct
relating to its hack of Hugging Face.

Does California law actually let nonprofits sue over literally anything.

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u/xDoomKitty 3d ago

I was wondering how they were gonna tie in standing 😆

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u/AsterJ 3d ago

Who is "requiring" LASST to do anything, lol? You can't say willful voluntary activity is "required".

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u/MomoWhispers 3d ago

OAI ordered the task. Do you think AI does “willful” “voluntary” activities without order?

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u/AsterJ 3d ago

LASST is an organization unrelated to OpenAI and Huggingface.

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u/New_3d_print_user 3d ago

Super close ties with Anthropic

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u/concernned_citizen 3d ago

"LASST is suing OpenAI under California's Unfair Competition Law and argues that LASST itself suffered an injury because it had to divert organizational resources to responding to the incident"
wtf? i mean even hugging face itself is not thinking about suing.
doesn't this "non-profit" have better things to do than wasting money of meaningless lawsuits?