Fresh off a high-powered meeting at the White House involving the AI industry, OpenAI was hit with a lawsuit filed under California law for the hacking incidents involving rogue AI agents from OpenAI’s models. The lawsuit, Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology v OpenAI, was filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
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Here’s how Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, the plaintiff, explains the claim:
“The legal basis
“We’ve filed suit under California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL), alleging predicate violations of CDAFA, California’s anti-hacking statute. California’s UCL allows organizations to go to court on behalf of the public when a company does something unlawful or unfair, so long as those organizations were also injured by that company’s unlawful conduct. This is an approach that consumer advocates, anti-tobacco groups, and environmental organizations have used for decades to protect the public.
“The complaint also alleges that OpenAI’s practices are independently “unfair” under the UCL. OpenAI disabled its own cyber safety classifiers, ran agents on impossible tasks, and kept going after watching agents escape containment. And after its agents hacked Hugging Face, OpenAI published an open letter calling on “every organization” to “make cyber defense an immediate leadership priority” and on governments to coordinate cyber defense globally—despite OpenAI itself having caused the threat from which organizations must now protect themselves. OpenAI spreading the risk to consumers, organizations, and governments while privately benefiting is a fundamentally unfair business practice, and one that violates the UCL.”
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openai faces over 70 tort lawsuits, far more than copyright suits
Although these tort lawsuits may receive less media attention than the copyright suits against AI, they more than double the number of copyright suits that OpenAI faces. The potential liability could be enormous. By my unofficial count, OpenAI faces 71 tort lawsuits.
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