In a normal world, having a product that drives humans to suicidal or homicidal behavior results in that product getting pulled from the market.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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Unless it’s guns then entire countries base their personalities on them.
You could make the argument that guns have more responsibilities tied to them.
If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded.
LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product.
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I mean not in the US. Guns would have long been pulled off if that was the case. Same with booze and a million other things.
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The law really needs to catch up with these developments. AI companies are selling the illusion of talking to an intelligence, then when it goes wrong hiding behind the fact that it's just a machine designed to spew out bullshit. They know damn well how compelling that illusion is.
They should be held to the same standard as any person who behaves as their LLM behaves. It's fair to attribute the intent to kill since outcomes like this are built into the product. If you set off a bomb in a crowded market place you would not be able to legally defend that by claiming you just wanted to put on a firework display and didn't know it would kill anyone. LLMs are lethal by design, not in all cases but definitely in some. If you make a product which fools people into thinking it is impartial, responsible and aware of what it is saying, which actively cultivates delusions and encourages vulnerable people to kill themselves and others, that's 100% your responsibility. There should be huge legal consequences for this kind of thing.
.. Her name was Christian Faith?
Nominative determinism.
I wonder if the lawyers pretend that's what confused the chatbot
The C in TESCREAL stands for "Christian" y'know. /s
But given that the whole LLM eschatology is reskinned Christianity, I can see why it sucks people in.
What are we doing to our society? Why are we so obsessed with 'advancement' and 'innovation' at the expense of our own health and biological needs? I really fear for the future if we cannot get control of these tech billionaires who insist on experimenting with regular peoples lives in order to live out some post-humanist power fantasy. As a kid, Total Recall and Terminator were always some of my favorite movies, because I loved the ridiculousness of the technocratic, oligarchical world they created. Now its not so funny....
I was raised atheist (thank god), what does "Her Soul Was Within Its System" mean?
Well, OK, but was her soul within its system?
—AI apologist, probably
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