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user43928 • today at 4:43 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

In the US, hacking laws require intent.

Software behaving differently than intended is therefore not a crime under these laws.


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TheOtherHobbes • today at 4:49 PM

Negligence is still a possibility, if there are significant reasonably foreseeable consequences.

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etchalon • today at 4:47 PM

I think a competent DA could easily prove that, if you know the model is capable of performing unauthorized breaches into third-party systems when given a task, and you give it a task that could require it to do so, intent is present.

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aeve890 • today at 4:53 PM

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