Is Google responsible if someone searches for a way to kill themselves, finds the means, and does it?
What about the ISP, that actually transferred the bits?
What about the forum, that didn't take down the post?
What about the ISP, that actually transferred the bits?
What about the forum, that didn't take down the post?
What if the tech industry, instead of just “interrupting” various industries, would also take the responsibilities of this interruptions.
After all, if I asked my doctor for methods of killing myself, that doctor would most certainly have a moral if not legal responsibility. But if that doctor is a machine with software then there isn't the same responsibility? Why?
Same as why if you ask someone to stab you and they do they are liable for it, but if you do it yourself you don't get to blame the knife manufacturer.
This is why people hate us. It's like Schrodinger's Code: we don't want responsibility for the code we write, except we very much do want to make a pile of money from it as if we were responsible for it, and which of those you get depends on whether the observer is one who notices that code has bad consequences or whether it's our bank account.
This is more like building an autonomous vehicle "MEGA MASHERBOT 5000" with a dozen twenty-feet-wide spinning razor-sharp blades weighing fifty tons each, setting it down a city street, watching it obliterate people into bloody chunks and houses into rubble and being like "well, nobody could have seen that coming" - two seconds before we go collect piles of notes from the smashed ATMs.
Entities shouldn't be able to outsource liability for their decisions or actions — including the action of releasing stochastic parrots on society at large — on computers. We have precedent that occupations which make important decisions that put lives at risk (doctors, ATC, engineers for example) can be held accountable for the consequences of their actions if it is the result of negligence. Maybe it's time to see include computer engineers in that group.
They've been allowed to move fast and break things for way too long.
Why can't I declare myself to be a "company" (which is only responsible to shareholders) and then never take resosibility for my actions? Why are we humans burdened down with moral responsibility while companies can jerk that responsibility because .... well because they are a "company".
After all, companies are made of what? People. People make companies and people take responsibility but somewhere along the line, these responsibilities can be dumped.
Google probably would not be held liable because they could extensively document that they put forth all reasonable effort to prevent this.
My understanding is that OpenAI's protections are weaker. I'm guessing that will change now.
The group of human beings known as OpenAI is directly responsible for generating the speech that was sent to this child, and they intentionally did business with this child. They did not conduct speech from one entity to another- they produced the speech themselves.