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baqtoday at 3:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

I don’t see how it can’t be both. Yes, it is a felony, unarguably, but it’s also a first of its kind and I’ll be very interested in who law enforcement prosecutes and what the judiciary says about this. Almost everything is a precedent here except ‘somebody got hacked’.


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ses1984today at 3:20 PM

If someone invents a new weapon to hurt someone, is the first inflicted injury unprecedented?

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stronglikedantoday at 4:14 PM

It's not a first of it's kind. AI is a hammer, and the one wielding the hammer is responsible for those hurt by the hammer. It's a classic case of the powerful not being held accountable. It's a tale as old as time.

pocksuppettoday at 3:31 PM

White-hat hackers go to prison for running a scanner on a website and reporting the found vulnerabilities to the website owner without exploiting them. I don't see why this should be any different.

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