OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday.
LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from accessing computer systems without authorisation. The ban would cover the AI agents it builds. The group does not seek damages.
“Hugging Face was a serious incident and we’ve taken a series of actions in response to it, but this lawsuit is completely without merit,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC.
What the OpenAI lawsuit says
LASST says OpenAI broke California’s anti-hacking law, the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act. It brings the case under the state’s Unfair Competition Law. The group says it has standing because it had to divert staff and money to deal with the hack.
The complaint cites...
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