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The hypothetical imagined hiring an intern to do a crime and supposed that this might make liability harder to determine. It doesn't!

An intern is a human, unlike Microsoft Word or an LLM, which are tools/machines/etc.

Automated DDOS-for-hire services are not legal either. They're tools/machines/etc, possibly running more or less autonomously.

I think we all know it's illegal to sell illegal services.