Casey NewtonSuing ChatGPT for defamation feels like suing a calculator for bank fraud
Alex Chaffeemore like suing Texas Instruments for selling a calculator that occasionally says two plus two equals casey newton is a sex criminal
Louis Ingenthron@alexch @caseynewton Yes, it would be. Especially since I can write a program in a TI calculator to do exactly that. Should they be liable for it?
in that case you would be liable since you programmed the thing to lie about our dear innocent friend casey, not TI ; OpenAI is the responsible entity in this scenario since it’s the publisher
considering that every web server is a program, and every book and newspaper is printed by a program these days — “i didn’t say it, a program did” is not a defense when you’re the one who published, promoted, and charged money for the lie
@alexch @caseynewton It's the same thing. The calculator won't respond with bad data without a user writing a program and the AI won't respond with bad data without a user writing a prompt.
There's a huge difference between speech written by employee humans and published by algorithms vs speech written and published by algorithms prompted by user speech.