jchook
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
They threw the book at him. He was charged and faced a maximum of 50 years in prison.
OpenAI committed very similar crimes on a much larger scale, yet the most they will see is civil litigation.
Insiders have called it the largest theft of labor ever in history[1].
In the USA, corporations enjoy constitutional protections, the right to free speech etc, yet they are rarely if ever charged with crimes. For examples, see how the courts handle:
* large scale systematic wage theft by corporations vs petty theft by an individual,
* negligence infecting a 10k Americans with HIV by selling known-to-be-contaminated blood products (Bayer)
1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/microsoft-exec-c...
Imagining a mode where the agent is very transparent about its direction and process, and I can passively interject at any time to steer the outcome, without having to wait my turn or hard-interrupt.
She stayed in the race for Super Tuesday in 2020 rather than consolidating the progressive vote for Sanders.
Right before, her campaign accepted millions in funding from billionaires after promising not to. Her comment was roughly, as soon as others stop taking billionaire money, I will stop.
So perhaps you are a constituent part of the larger consciousness, and you feel your part of it (e.g. your roles and relationships in society)
Only the US sees this as a competition, new space race, Cold War, etc.