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
@alexch who cares if it says that? it's a calculator!
obviously the person who is suing TI / OpenAI cares
and it’s up to the courts to decide if the harm rises to the level of tort or whatever, but it’s not an absurd proposition that defamation is happening when a real company publishes salacious falsehoods about real people
@alexch "publishes" doing a lot of heavy lifting here
Kait@caseynewton @alexch Where does OpenAI’s responsibility for its algorithm’s output start and end? I don’t think there’s a direct analogue to say, wire services, but nor do I think OpenAI just gets to hand wave away all responsibility for its creation.