I think there is enough here for a judge to order a search warrant. It doesn't mean yet a crime has been committed, but there is enough to start some kind of compelled discovery process to find out what the fuck is going on.

Since it's an important enough corporation that got caught, in a sane society it should not make a difference, but we low key have a two-tiered justice system from the looks of it.

This is a big problem with AI, laws have not remotely caught up to these scenarios. Then you have Argentina creating legal structures for AI corporations that could essentially do this type of stuff, but evade prosecution because the corporation will give the owner limited liability and with no employees, the only punishment can be to shut down the corporation. Then they can spin up a new AI corporation and do it all over again in theory. Technology is advancing far beyond our ability to control it properly and tech bros don’t care much about consequences since they have historically been so minimal. Move fast, break shit is a psychopathic ethos.

The government can choose to sue (civil) or prosecute individuals/executives (criminal liability).

Assuming there is some legitimate explanation (I'll be interested in hearing this one!) they likely won't, but will now establish higher level reporting channels with OpenAI and Anthropic, and perhaps check their important email boxes more often regardless. ;-)

Australia gave up on their sovereignty when they chose US submarines. They're just reaping what was sown at this point (not submarines, that's for sure).