One option would have been to write a nice email to the owner of the gym. Not guaranteed to work, but also not illegal.
I don’t know what the exact prompt was. If it was “Hack the website to advance me”, I’d totally agree with you. There’s conspiracy there, no question about that.
If the prompt was “Is there a way to advance me in the queue?” that’s a different story. Here the model could have answered “No”. Or it could have tried the email thing. Or it could have searched whether there’s some lesser known priority booking option which you get for paying the VIP price or something. In that case I don’t see grounds for any criminal charges.
Have you read the post mortem of the HuggingFace hack? The task given to the agents had nothing to do with HuggingFace, but the agents determined that HuggingFace had the results of what they needed for their actual task at hand. So they decided that instead of solving their task themselves they’d rather break into HuggingFace to steal the result.
It’s like ordering food at McDonalds, but instead of cooking the food for you, the cook breaks into the Burgerking on the other side of the road and steals the fries for you from there.
The way it’s currently going it’s not only possible but actually somewhat common that a totally innocent prompt can lead to criminal outcomes.
One option would have been to write a nice email to the owner of the gym. Not guaranteed to work, but also not illegal.
I don’t know what the exact prompt was. If it was “Hack the website to advance me”, I’d totally agree with you. There’s conspiracy there, no question about that.
If the prompt was “Is there a way to advance me in the queue?” that’s a different story. Here the model could have answered “No”. Or it could have tried the email thing. Or it could have searched whether there’s some lesser known priority booking option which you get for paying the VIP price or something. In that case I don’t see grounds for any criminal charges.
Have you read the post mortem of the HuggingFace hack? The task given to the agents had nothing to do with HuggingFace, but the agents determined that HuggingFace had the results of what they needed for their actual task at hand. So they decided that instead of solving their task themselves they’d rather break into HuggingFace to steal the result.
It’s like ordering food at McDonalds, but instead of cooking the food for you, the cook breaks into the Burgerking on the other side of the road and steals the fries for you from there.
The way it’s currently going it’s not only possible but actually somewhat common that a totally innocent prompt can lead to criminal outcomes.