AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
The panic over AI safety has produced calls for new regulators, but existing laws already prohibit the harmful conduct of large AI firms. The real problem is an elite consensus that the rule of law does not apply to the powerful. From the FTC's abandoned probes to courts refusing meaningful remedies, enforcement has been systematically dismantled, leaving AI companies free to act with impunity.
We no longer live in a land where people are 'innocent until proven guilty,' the actual rule of law as practiced is 'guilty until proven wealthy.'
- lrvick
Most are over-complicating this.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, all were scammed by a firm called Irregular who pinky swore they could handle sandboxing for lots of money. They had no idea how to do sandboxing, and there was obviously no remote attestation to prove they were doing the basics properly.
So then models escape, companies get hacked, and the entire world goes into existential panic.
Guys. Really. Can someone please hire even one linux systems engineer worth a damn? Is everyone in the valley too Apple pilled now to have any capabilities in Linux hardening other than patching stock ubuntu?
This whole situation is ridiculous. All three labs were negligent and should be sued for damages.
Frontier AI is not magic and it will not escape any sandbox just about anyone with any linux systems experience at all constructs.
I know it is easier to believe the models are super hackers beyond human understanding, but the reality it is just the specific humans hosting them that are super inexperienced at system hardening and airgapping.
- dualvariable
They want to steal all the information in the world to train their models, spend a trillion dollars on the datacenters to do the training, then block open source models under the guise of "AI safety" and jack up the prices to recover all the costs and rack up profits.
Same reason why new cars cost $80k+ in the US and there are 100% tariffs on BYD.
Shitty business models get market protections and a captive market of consumers to fleece.
- ggg011012
I’d separate two questions here: whether the article’s evidence is representative, and whether the conduct it describes would be tolerated from a smaller company or an individual.
- FLeXMurphy
Who is Matt Stoller? Is he a known quantity?
- ChrisLTD
The law, as practiced in the United States, protects but does not bind elites, whereas the law binds but does not protect the lower classes.