False equivalence; a hammer and a chatbot are not the same. Browsers and operating systems are tools designed to facilitate actions, not to give mental health opinions on free-text inquiries. Once it starts writing suicide notes you don’t get to pretend it’s a hammer anymore.
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
They're in an impossible situation they created themselves and inflict on the rest of us. Forgive us if we don't shed any tears for them.
Sure - so is Google Chrome for abetting them with a browser, and Microsoft for not using their Windows spyware to call suicide hotline.
I don't empathize with any of these companies, but I don't trust them to solve mental health either.
False equivalence; a hammer and a chatbot are not the same. Browsers and operating systems are tools designed to facilitate actions, not to give mental health opinions on free-text inquiries. Once it starts writing suicide notes you don’t get to pretend it’s a hammer anymore.
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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. We've got to stop throwing up our hands and shrugging when giant corporations are evil
Regular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.
There 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
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A therapist might face major consequences
Regular people don't have global reach and influence over humanity's agency, attention, beliefs, politics and economics.
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Held criminally liable for what, exactly?
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