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The leaders of these LLM companies should be held criminally liable for their products in the same way that regular people would be if they did the same thing.
by sumeno 8mo ago
The leaders of these LLM companies should be held criminally liable for their products in the same way that regular people would be if they did the same thing. We've got to stop throwing up our hands and shrugging when giant corporations are evil
- logicx24 8mo agoRegular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.
- sumeno 8mo agoThere have absolutely been cases of people being held criminally liable for encouraging someone to commit suicide. In California it is a felony > Any person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony. https://california.public.law/codes/penal_code_section_401 https://california.public.law/codes/penal_code_section_401
- zahlman 8mo ago>>>> helped... write a suicide note. > encouraging someone to commit suicide. These are not the same thing. And the evidence from the article is that the bot was anything but encouraging of this plan, up until the end.
- FireBeyond 8mo agoVery cherry picked. That would absolutely be "aiding" someone. "I don't want my family to worry about what's happening".
- sumeno 8mo agoThat's for the jury to decide.
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoRegular people don't have global reach and influence over humanity's agency, attention, beliefs, politics and economics.
- logicx24 8mo agoIf Donald Trump did this, he wouldn't be criminally liable either.
- lokar 8mo agoA therapist might face major consequences
- wiseowise 8mo agoHeld criminally liable for what, exactly?