[vintagedave]

Question for lawyers of HN. Is there legal liability for this?

I can’t help thinking if I casually blogged about a computer or software I was responsible for hacking into multiple organizations and exfiltrating data I would invite some form of official attention.

What if one of these companies decides to sue?

Has Anthropic violated any Federal law?

Is there some kind of expectation that if you just admit to hacking, it’s ok? Yet, that doesn’t seem to apply to individuals.

[solenoid0937]

The companies could sue as this is a violation of CFAA. Makes the disclosure all the more commendable I think.

[wmf]

I assume Anthropic already contacted the affected companies and negotiated some settlement before releasing this. Unlike a lot of other commenters, I think these mistakes were actually mistakes and accepting a settlement is better than releasing the lawyers guns blazing.

[frabcus]

I hope someone does sue soon. The AI companies are making a very dangerous technology deliberately, and at minimum should be accountable for those dangers. Some will really try not to be as we get further into this - just as previous examples like tobacco companies.