Comment by amosjyng

> that person would likely lose his/her license and potentially face criminal penalties.

What if it were an unlicensed human encouraging someone else's delusions? I would think that's the real basis of comparison, because these LLMs are clearly not licensed therapists, and we can see from the real world how entire flat earth communities have formed from reinforcing each others' delusions.

Automation makes things easier and more efficient, and that includes making it easier and more efficient for people to dig their own rabbit holes. I don't see why LLM providers are to blame for someone's lack of epistemological hygiene.

Also, there are a lot of people who are lonely and for whatever reasons cannot get their social or emotional needs met in this modern age. Paying for an expensive psychiatrist isn't going to give them the friendship sensations they're craving. If AI is better at meeting human needs than actual humans are, why let perfect be the enemy of good?

> if waymo is better than the average driver, but still gets into an accident, who should be held accountable?

Waymo of course -- but Waymo also shouldn't be financially punished any harder than humans would be for equivalent honest mistakes. If Waymo truly is much safer than the average driver (which it certainly appears to be), then the amortized costs of its at-fault payouts should be way lower than the auto insurance costs of hiring out an equivalent number of human Uber drivers.