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AI, Data Breaches, and an Old Lesson from the Law of Bailment

DataBreaches.net · · International · AI Governance

So I didn’t know what the doctrine of bailment is. If you don’t either, you may want to read this post by Jake L. Ramsey of Offit Kurman. It starts by noting the presentation at BlackHat by two OpenAI engineers about the Hugging Face incident and notes two of their statements: First, one OpenAI engineer... Source

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