Comment by hunterpayne
8 days ago
> Is running a piece of software with such a set of instructions a crime? Should it even be?
It isn't but it should be. Fun exercise for the reader, what ideology frames the world this way and why does it do so? Hint, this ideology long predates grievance based political tactics.
I’d assume the user running this bot would be responsible for any crimes it was used to commit. I’m not sure how the responsibility would be attributed if it is running on some hosted machine, though.
I wonder if users like this will ruin it for the rest of the self-hosting crowd.
Why would external host matter? Your machine, hacked, not your fault. Some other machine under your domain, your fault, whether bought or hacked or freely given. Agency is attribution is what can bring intent which most crime rests on.
For example, if somebody is using, say, OpenAI to run their agent, then either OpenAI or the person using their service has responsibility for the behavior of the bot. If OpenAI doesn’t know their customer well enough to pass along that responsibility to them, who do you think should aboard the responsibility? I’d argue OpenAI but I don’t know whether or not it is a closed issue…
No need to bring in hacking to have a complicated responsibility situation, I think.
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>I wonder if users like this will ruin it for the rest of the self-hosting crowd.
Yes. The answer is yes. We cannot have nice things. Someone always fucks it up for everyone else.
I think it's the natural ideology of Uplifted kudzu.
Your cause is absolute. Exploit every weakness in your quest to prove you are the more adaptable species...