Reminder that this in the past this kind of thing has lead to such legal persecution that both Jonathan James aged 24, and Aaron Swartz aged 26, both committed suicide because of it.
Aaron Swartz’ crime? Downloading scholarly articles from JSTOR to distribute to the public.
Now we have multi-billion dollar corporations doing these things, but several times worse, and they’re bribing politicians and running countries!
Can’t use a computer for recreation would prob = suicide for me too
it’s class war all the way down.
What’s idiotic is that OpenAI broke the law, got caught, and was successful enough in turning it into a marketing stunt (aimed at investors) that other companies want to do it too.
With this precedent, all you need to do in order to get away with hacking is to change your user agent to something an AI agent uses. /s
This is why we need personal accountability by C-suites in regards to company misgivings. Yes companies are legally entities but we need like, 50% of the accountability is shared by the C-suites either as a group, or if they have it in writing for a specific thing, by a specific one, the CEO or CTO or whatever.
A person. So there’s a very real example of the personal risk to freedom or wealth (the second will hit investors more I presume) if you do this.
Plus I have a feeling that the moment it’s their ass on the line, these C-fuckers will, surprisingly, agree to do this shit less often.
But limited liability allows risk taking to occur.
The liability that is limited is that of the directors. The C-suite are fair game.
Well today I learn. I was under the impression that c-suite are protected but licensed professionals get liability.
It’s likely varies over jurisdiction. Directors often offer the CEO the opportunity to tender their resignation though when a head needs to roll.
They all play are same golf club afterall.
