By boasting about doing criminal things and about OpenAI being too incompetent to properly sandbox their toy? Somehow that does not strike me as a very smart strategy.

Pretty much. Obviously, the people that failed to contain this mindless monster are at fault for any and all damage done. They failed to put adequate safeguards in place and that is at the very least criminal negligence.

Yes. A lot of software connected to the Internet is not secured or very badly secured. It does not get attacked because nobody cares enough. Or that was the state until some criminals let their "AI" run amok on the Internet.

How dare you publish my password? (The first one) and then also my reserve, ultra-high security password??? (The second one)
I will not have to spend weeks to learn new ones!

Anyone activating a dangerous machine while knowingly not putting adequate safeguards in place is a criminal. If done as organization, this organization becomes a criminal enterprise. It really does not matter what that machine is.

Exactly. The clearly criminal activity here is on the humans that gave the instructions, while failing to make sure their tool was properly contained. At the very least criminal negligence, maybe criminal intent. You cannot go around hacking things without permission without that beine illegal. And it does not matter what tools you use for your activities.

Exactly. And shut down their operation, like with any criminal enterprise.

If OpenAI cannot control their tool, then they need to be shut down and the responsible people there need to be punished. Just as with any other crime.

it is absolutely true. The companies have already admitted that guardrails are a constantly moving target. There are even mathematical proofs on it.

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" /s

So near the beginning of this section, the comment was "A salary was 1303 and a car was $290". That's a around a fifth of one's salary. For a Toyota Camry to be on par with that, a person would have to make at least $125 a year. Without quibbling about how much taxes have changed since then (I'm sure they have gone up) the average salary in the US is only $70K and the median wage is $62K.

But the things that people need and thus cannot avoid spending money on has exceeded inflation 10x. Housing, rent, transportation, child care, food... Maybe buying power has gone up on paper but not for people who need to live in the real world.

It is theoretically impossible for them to plug all the ethics holes in AI, because in theory there will always be a way around to the activities they are trying to block.

Was the password aG7!mQ2#xL9@pR5 or was the password abc123? Yes, of course AI will be able to check weak passwords quickly. But that has been required for a long time now, that everyone has to have a secure password.

And what was the hypervisor they broke into? That's my question. How long has that hypervisor been proven in the industry? I would say the fact that AI could break it doesn't make the AI smart, it makes the people that use it stupid.