Microsoft has filed swimsuit in opposition to 10 unnamed individuals (“Does”), who’re apparently working abroad, for misuse of its Azure OpenAI platform, asking the Jap District of Virginia federal court docket for damages and injunctive reduction.
The swimsuit was filed in late December however was not made public till final Friday, when the preliminary sealed filings have been revealed. The grievance makes quite a few claims, of which probably the most outstanding are violations of the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act, in addition to the Racketeering and Organized Corruption Act.
Microsoft, in line with its essential grievance, is accusing the ten “Does” of illicitly accessing its Azure OpenAI service and utilizing it to supply a “hacking-as-a-service” providing to different unnamed dangerous actors. The anonymous defendants, who, in line with Microsoft, make up a foreign-based consortium, used the OpenAI entry to supply generative AI companies to criminals, whereas concurrently circumventing the “guard rails” that Microsoft has put in place in an effort to stop its AI from getting used for nefarious functions.
