If they do so knowingly, and harm is caused, then yes. Are you suggesting we should give them a pass from years of acquired jurisprudence simply because they hold a particular title?
And what institution gives out the licenses for journalists and scientists? Is it revokable?
The danger there is that the government will demand access to a journalists sources. "Leak reports Area 51 has aliens!" "Oh yeah? Prove who told you that or we'll arrest you for lying"
Or selectively. "Vaccines cause autism!" "Okay" "Vaccines don't cause autism!" "Prove it beyond a reasonable doubt or we'll arrest you for lying"
We already do. Libel and fraud are already illegal.
If they do so knowingly, and harm is caused, then yes. Are you suggesting we should give them a pass from years of acquired jurisprudence simply because they hold a particular title?
And what institution gives out the licenses for journalists and scientists? Is it revokable?
Do LLMs knowingly make mistakes?
Do we sue scientists for unintentional procedural errors?
This isn't about what the LLM knows. No one's trying to hold a computer liable.
This is about what Google knows.
And Google knows perfectly well that LLMs hallucinate all the time. They will provide incorrect information, confidently and often.
Which is why this whole article is explicitly about holding Google accountable.
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Yes, obviously.
What if they just make a mistake, unintentionally?
Publishing lies that were generated by the plausible-lie-generating-machine is a very intentional action, it's not a "mistake".
The legal profession uses the term "reckless disregard", see, e.g., [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
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…even unintentionally.
You don't?
It’s in the nature of empirical reality that scientific measurements can be wrong.
The danger there is that the government will demand access to a journalists sources. "Leak reports Area 51 has aliens!" "Oh yeah? Prove who told you that or we'll arrest you for lying"
Or selectively. "Vaccines cause autism!" "Okay" "Vaccines don't cause autism!" "Prove it beyond a reasonable doubt or we'll arrest you for lying"
If we can solve these problems, then yes?