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nxobjecttoday at 9:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Beyond the breach, I think OAI deserves to answer: what and why did it access the information? Real people and their data are involved.

It looks like the PM gave Sam Altman a "tsk tsk". It will be interesting to see whether someone else tries to impose more consequences.


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pixl97today at 10:20 PM

> what and why did it access the information?

Honestly it's very likely something stupidly simple.

"What is the rate of health incident $X in $Y to the $Z degree". The bot went around playing mad libs with XYZ and found that the public AU data wasn't sufficient to get the answer the grader wanted so started kicking down doors.

I saw someone explain it like "A group of masked men rush a nuclear facility, breach security successfully, then count how many buttons are on each control panel on average". Like using a godhammer to destroy a mouse, their motivations and capabilities just fall in a completely different alignment to humans.

brigatoday at 9:51 PM

Just think about the shareholder value they can unlock if they have unlimited access to everyone's data!

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