Cousin of mine is a lawyer for EFF who works on 4th Amendment border searches of phones. These links don't address the issue of the duress password, but here is the EFF on the latest court ruling on phone searches by Customs and Border Protection. But other court rulings have had different outcomes. Seems to be an area that will have to percolate up the appeals chain to be resolved.

The people at the top of the ziggurat have always been more than willing to piss on those below them. Don't imagine that the media has caused this, because this is the prevailing reality and has been presumably since before recorded history, because it's certainly been true for as long as we know about.

They can run inferior models in-house. If they want models which do all the things they're used to, though that is nowhere near the promises made by AI providers, they will either need to spend a shitload on hardware or pay someone else for the service. There's no cheap way into having high quality LLMs, for what that's even worth.

The models you can run on reasonable hardware are more impressive than many people might think, but they aren't anywhere near the capabilities of the larger models.

The Trump regime is connected to the reality of sabotaging the USA.

It really doesn't matter why or for who, although it's Putin ofc.

This was nonsense until China started putting out cheap EVs below cost. American automakers had huge overseas sales.

They aren't though, that's the problem. They have the rights of people, but none of the responsibilities, or anything else frankly. If they had the responsibilities of people, then we could incarcerate or "kill" them.

Russia has assassinated former Russian citizens outside of Russia before, it would be unsurprising if they did it again.

If it is on purpose, it is not rogue. I suspect China or Russia among others would do this now, if they thought that they could get away with it.

You do not put the AI in jail. You put the ones in jail that did run it in a criminally negligent way. Or you find the whole thing was actually intended and planned. I am not ruling that out.

I doubt the OpenAI employees would understand what that means. That is, if the whole thing was not a planned stunt.

Do not overestimate what it "did" here. You can get information about basic hacking approaches all over the Internet and there will have been enough in its training data. Just add some "accidental" disabling of guardrails and some "non intended" weaknesses in the sandbox and also some suggestive prompting by some of the OpenAI fraudsters and you get the desired outcome. Oh, and pathetic-level IT Security at Hugging Face, but that is a given.

Just as an example, I have had a fresh graduate do a pen-test against a banking datacenter a while ago. Smart person, but inexperienced. After 4 hours, he was "system" on a Microsoft server in their secure server zone. No special tools, no AI, just common sense and a good CS education. A lot of IT security is incredibly bad. As long as we do not get liability and qualification requirements and minimal required standards, that is not going to change.

Indeed. Looks like being rich means you do not have to follow the law anymore. Why not just give immunity to all of Big Tech, the seem to effectively have it already.

Seriously, why are these people apparently getting away with criminal conduct?

I am using "AI" as shorthand for LLMs. I am well aware that other AI fields deliver. After their respective hypes had died down that is, for many of them.

I am also not arguing that when learning some tech while already having good skills in a related area, LLMs can be helpful. But to not expect them to ever be able to deliver production code.

Nope. If it is connected to the Internet incompetently, the security will eventually be found to suck. You are stuck in the paradigm from 20-30 years ago.