1. Responsibility lies with the humans/organization, not the AI “agents”
- “If your machine causes damage, you are responsible. Like it’s been forever.” — qarl
- “Blaming bots as ‘rogue agents’ is simply what the media regularly does, often echoing corporate verbiage.” — mossTechnician
- “OpenAI keeps telling its bots to do things they know are illegal and then acting like they’re just little guys who can't be held responsible.” — plorg
2. Debate over whether the activity was truly harmful or just benign use of public data/developer tools
- “OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public.” — nr378
- “The bots used tools reserved for software developers to access it… Tons of people use tools to access Census Bureau data.” — chaps
- “Meddling is a super vague term that the press uses to let the readers assume the most when the least happens.” — parineum
3. Critique of sensational/media framing and possible ulterior motives (regulatory capture, marketing)
- “This is their fear mongering push for regulatory capture.” — api
- “The headline says ‘meddled’ but the body says they accessed public information… Does this mean they skipped the web interface and scraped a public API directly?” — Aurornis
- “Ultimately this type of terminology dispute has a tendency to miss the point.” — 0xDEAFBEAD