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You’re seriously arguing that Google’s libel shouldn’t count as libel because they showed it to too many people? It’s absolutely insane to suggest that a compan
by thfuran 4mo ago
You’re seriously arguing that Google’s libel shouldn’t count as libel because they showed it to too many people? It’s absolutely insane to suggest that a company should be immune from liability for its actions if it operates on such scale that those actions harm millions of people every day on the basis that dealing with that many lawsuits would be too inconvenient.
- 8note 4mo agoits not inaccurate though. consider Purdue pharma - the Sacklers got off with all their wealth intact because they were too big to sue and properly collect money for their victims.
- oaiey 4mo agoBut we agree that this was also wrong, right?
- account42 4mo agoYeah its wild to see people actually using "kill a million people and its a statistic" as a defense rather than to point out injustice.
- intended 4mo agoJust because someone got away with it means everyone should get away with it ?
- drawfloat 4mo agoNo they got away with it through a combination of lax pharmaceutical laws, and because they were rich and connected to the officials who should have investigated them. They're also almost universally regarded as having committed evil acts at this point, so who cares why they got away with it?
- drstewart 4mo agoExactly, it's like saying Wikipedia shouldn't be liable and immediately shut down for any wrong information shown on it.
- wasmitnetzen 4mo agoWikipedia doesn't have to shut down, but they have to remove the libel. The problem for LLMs is that they do not learn, and can't be prevented to produce that libel ever again. If Google finds a way to make that happen, no court would stop them from offering an LLM.
- thfuran 4mo agoThe court isn’t stopping them from offering an LLM, it’s saying that serving the output of its LLM is, in this sense, equivalent to serving the output of a human writer they hired. That is, it is Google’s speech and they are directly liable for it, unlike when they’re just serving search results that are somebody else’s speech.