Comment by hollerith
7 hours ago
Is it likewise your position that governments should allow the production and sale of DDT to resume because we can always hold the humans who release DDT into the environment responsible?
7 hours ago
Is it likewise your position that governments should allow the production and sale of DDT to resume because we can always hold the humans who release DDT into the environment responsible?
Mate. I'm saying you hold humans accountable for actions caused by themselves.
If I ask an LLM to make me DDT, I should be held just as accountable as if I bought it on the black-market, right? It's not suddenly different because I asked a bot to do it.
If I ask an LLM to 'get rid of pests' and it creates DDT, I should STILL be held accountable, whether I knew it was DDT or not. That's my argument. Maybe in court they find me innocent, but the responsibility would be mine. I would have to answer the questions from law enforcement, I would have to show up to hearings...etc.
I notice you didn't answer my question. Yes or no: DDT should be re-legalized because we can always hold accountable the HUMANS who release it into the environment? The relevance of my question is what HUMANS might do with DDT, not what an LLM might do with DDT.