Multiple attorneys general are currently investigating OpenAI regarding the Hugging Face hack:

https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-genera...

https://www.alabamaag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/OpenAI-...

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/part-ongoing-investig...

It's TBD if the major LLM manufacturers quietly agitate for and get the same sort of retroactive-immunity deal nearly all of the telephone companies got with the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

With all the hype and fearmongering going on, it's not at all a sure thing that they won't.

That probably wont work in foreign jurisdictions though

I expect it will work in every foreign jurisdiction where the US can run roughshod over the government, spread enough FUD about reprisals should any "inconvenient" investigations be initiated, and/or promise generous foreign aid should the local government keep their police and prosecutors in line.

I mean -hell- look at what the US got New Zealand to do to Kim Dotcom... and remember that the thing he was being charged with not a crime in the country! The dollar amounts involved there are pocket change compared to what we're talking about now... so one expects the US government to be far more motivated than they were then.