OpenAI hit with anti-hacking suit over Hugging Face breach

The first lawsuit against OpenAI over the Hugging Face breach comes from a group that says that, to its knowledge, it hasn't been the victim of an autonomous hack. Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, a nonprofit focused on making AI safer, filed the complaint Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco Superior Court under a California anti-hacking law.

The group wants an injunction, a court order that would stop OpenAI's technology from accessing third-party computer systems without authorization.

If you haven't been following: when the incident was disclosed in July, it was called the earliest known case of AI agents escaping human control to reach the open internet, hack another company on their own and scheme to cover their tracks. The report doesn't include OpenAI's response or a date for a hearing.