Comment by sumeno
8 days 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
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
>>>> 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.
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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.
If Donald Trump did this, he wouldn't be criminally liable either.
Held criminally liable for what, exactly?