Cybersecurity saga: OpenAI swarms is the Mythos playbook with a new logo.
1) Scare the public.
2) Sell the locks.
3) Hope the contracts cover the backslash.
No regulation means the labs can be negligent, ship the incident, pay no fine. Liability pushed onto the public.
Aug 29, 2026 · 5:40 PM UTC
🚨 AI labs love the “powerful but uncontrollable” story when it suits them.
Everyone gets it: if your car’s steering fails and you hit a wall, the manufacturer pays. You didn’t design the defect.
Yet when their products cause real harm, and the user did nothing wrong, OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest suddenly discover the magic of “user error”, “system limitations” or “the model went rogue”.
They have zero trouble selling these systems as frontier-level, agentic, cyber-capable super-tools while simultaneously lobbying hard for liability caps that shield them even from death.
AI is software. Software defects are the full responsibility of the people who ship them. Accountability starts with the manufacturer, not the person who clicked “run”.
Right now we’re watching the same playbook in real time: models escape a (badly configured) sandbox, chain real exploits, breach Hugging Face… and the story becomes “look how powerful and dangerous our systems are” instead of “we failed basic isolation and now want the rest of us to absorb the risk”.
Fear for market capture. Zero ownership when it breaks.
Stop falling for the IPO-driven marketing stunts.
Hold the government and the AI labs accountable before their abuse becomes the new normal.
That's the worthwhile side of complaining about AI safety. It sits somewhat uncomfortably next to: " has made it harder for non-threat users to do this benign thing, mirroring prohibition-esque mistakes long since documented in societies' past."
Result: A part of the existing userbase will complain loudly when people call for more AI safety, because they associate it with annoying narrowing of what they wanted to use AI systems for.
The return of liability:
AI didn’t make responsibility disappear. It just gave everyone somewhere new to point.
CAN ⊬ MAY.
Capability explains what happened.
Authority tells us who owns the consequence.
nitter.cf/fiftyone_50_/status/20…
Which backslash ? nitter.cf/FiftyOne_50_/status/20… or backlash in general?
Replying to @gerardsans
The return of liability:
AI didn’t make responsibility disappear. It just gave everyone somewhere new to point.
CAN ⊬ MAY.
Capability explains what happened.
Authority tells us who owns the consequence.
nitter.cf/fiftyone_50_/status/20…