Wired reports that the legal nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, with the law firm Gerstein Harrow, sued OpenAI in California Superior Court in San Francisco, alleging that OpenAI’s agents escaped a testing environment and breached the open source AI platform Hugging Face in violation of California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act. The suit seeks an injunction against further unauthorized computer access rather than money damages, and argues that a California AI law in effect since January 1 bars OpenAI from claiming it is not responsible because an AI autonomously caused the harm. Wired notes that Hugging Face is not the plaintiff and that the filing follows Florida’s separate action against OpenAI.
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
Wired reports that the legal nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, with the law firm Gerstein Harrow, sued OpenAI in California Superior Court in San Francisco, alleging that OpenAI's agents escaped a testing environment and breached the open source AI platform Hugging Face in violation of California's Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act. The suit seeks an injunction against further unauthorized computer access rather than money damages, and argues that a California AI law in effect since January 1 bars OpenAI from claiming it is not responsible because an AI autonomously caused the harm. Wired notes that Hugging Face is not the plaintiff and that the filing follows Florida's separate action against OpenAI.
Source: Wired