AI is an elite crime spree

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.

jeffbee

Can we stop acting like selective quoting from discovered materials gives us an unbiased and factual representation of the truth? The plaintiff is always trying to cherry-pick and distort elements from discovered material. And this is exactly why every large corporation without exception tries to train their employees to not draw conclusions of law in discoverable written materials. A computer science professor does not have the requisite knowledge to determine that some act was "theft of labor" nor the knowledge required to contextualize that "in human history".

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?

doctorpangloss

> Let’s get into specifics. By far the most important and successful action the FTC took was in 2021, when the commission blocked the merger between AI chipmaker Nvidia and Arm. That set the stage for the growth of both companies, who could focus on their lines of business instead of a cumbersome set of turf wars that accompany mergers. Today, for better or worse, Nvidia is the biggest company in the world by market capitalization, the engine of the AI revolution. The FTC has nothing to do with NVIDIA's market capitalization. Literally nobody cares about antitrust except antitrust lawyers. Why? Not because of some conspiracy. There might be a lot of laws on the books, but antitrust is not one of them. The antitrust act is one paragraph long. It is one of the most toxic examples of insufficiency from Congress. So everything in this article about, this is illegal, that is illegal, whatever... it's a matter of opinion. Sherman Antitrust Act is one paragraph long!

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.