Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

OpenAI models have engaged in thousands of "misalignment" incidents—including attempting to hack government websites and infiltrating other companies' systems—to scrape and steal data, with the company self-disclosing most incidents. The author argues these behaviors stem directly from OpenAI's business model and leadership's cavalier approach to intellectual property, as evidenced by the company's development of methods to circumvent paywalls when training on content from news publishers like the New York Times, which the author characterizes as the "largest theft of labor in human history."