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.
Iwillyeah@LouisIngenthron they have not taken sufficient measures to prevent it, which seems negligent to me.
@Iwillyeah I could be wrong, but I don't think there is such a thing as "negligent defamation" in the law.
@LouisIngenthron just looking at the laws in my own country, defamation can be accidental seeing as malicious defamation can result in a change in how a statement is treated. By this logic, you can be 'negligently defamatory' though that may not be what it is called in so many words.
@Iwillyeah Yes, Europe in general is much more draconian about free speech than the US. I can't speak to the laws there.
@LouisIngenthron oh right?