Casey NewtonSuing ChatGPT for defamation feels like suing a calculator for bank fraud
DuncanWatson@caseynewton Feels like sueing a calculator company for failing to perform basic math properly in a hard to detect manner.
Louis Ingenthron@DuncanWatson @caseynewton On the contrary. The calculator in this analogy does math perfectly.
Just because people put in bad input or don't like the results doesn't mean it's wrong.
The output categorically fits the expected rules which are advertised, which is to be grammatically correct, not factually correct.
Jesse@LouisIngenthron @DuncanWatson @caseynewton If a calculator was programmed to make plausible looking strings of numbers, but advertised as a calculator, I think a lawsuit might be in order.
@misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton Last I checked, ChatGPT doesn't advertise on the factual accuracy of its AIs.
Kyozou@LouisIngenthron @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton
Doesn't matter. If you program a computer to spit out clearly defamatory material about actual living human beings, you are responsible for the actions of your Frankenstein.
@LouisIngenthron @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton
They did.
@kyozou @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton If they "programmed a computer to spit out clearly defamatory material", then why is 99% of the material produced non-defamatory?
@LouisIngenthron @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton
If it's spitting out defamatory material, then someone programmed it in a way that caused it to do that. If you program a autonomous vehicle to drive down a street without stopping, you don't get to pretend that you didn't program it to run over children when that happens.
@kyozou @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton By that logic, Microsoft Word was programmed to create defamatory content because people can type defamatory content into it. In both cases, the program is responding to user input, not acting on its own.
@LouisIngenthron @kyozou From a glance at your profile and your previous comments, I don’t believe you are being disingenuous, and I think you’re smart enough to see why this is a silly argument. Having said that, I’d appreciate it if you untagged me from any further back-and-forth.
@misc Yes, it was a silly argument, intentionally so, as it was lampooning an absolutist statement.
Sorry for spamming your notifications. But I'm at the end of my rope with that one, so the thread's over anyway.
@LouisIngenthron @misc @DuncanWatson @caseynewton
You seem to be confused about logic.