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How is product liability relevant here? If an AI company makes a model available, someone uses it, and it does something bad, who is at fault? The user, the data center, or the one who made the model?

If we want open weight models with a warranty disclaimer, then the user would be held liable. If we want to hold AI companies at least partially liable, that seems a different, centralized model.

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I think it’s more complex than that? What did it do? What did the user prompt it to do? What did the company train it to do? What did the harmed party do? There’s possibility for negligence at every level.

If you train a dog, rent it to someone, and the dog bites a third person, who is responsible? I think that’s the best analogue here.

All parties could share fault in that scenario, depending on what actually happened.

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