Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,
California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Wednesday, according to a statement released Thursday.
The OpenAI logo on May 20, 2024. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ReutersThe demand is part of the California Department of Justice's ongoing investigation into incidents arising from OpenAI's operations and its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including cybersecurity incidents and other risks.
"Frontier models can be legitimate tools for cyber defense - at the same time, companies that develop these models and offer them for use have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that they do not perpetrate or enable cyberattacks, either during model testing and development or once models are placed into service," Bonta said.
"Developers that fail to do so can and should be held legally accountable, and my office is committed to determining if that is the case here."
OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment.
Referring to the Hugging Face attack, the ChatGPT developer said in a July 28 update that its models bypassed restrictions in an evaluation environment and later accessed four accounts across four separate external services.
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