Vera [8598492] E-LisMar 25

would it be illegal to make someone else's ai agent rm - rf / or something like that by putting a prompt in your website or AGENTS.md or similar?

I feel like this could be seen as distribution of malware, even if it's just when accessing/interacting with your project in a way you don't want. I can see German courts seeing it that way

Show threadNyx PhoenixMar 25

@mpk technically, any interference with a "protected" computer system is also Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the US

in practice it also interprets to mean that an attacker walking through an open door is somehow messing with a protected computer and bam, fucktons of jail time

Show threadfluffboy   Mar 25
@traumaphoenix @mpk Idk what the definition of protected is in this case, but if someone gives an LLM the ability to run arbitrary binaries as root, that hardly would count as protected in my layperson opinion.
Show threadNyx Phoenix
@goes2hard @mpk the lawyers will find a way for "protected" to mean "not intended"
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Show threadNyx PhoenixMar 26

@goes2hard @mpk which is not a hypothetical, there's a ton of legal precedent that says basically anything with a microchip is a protected computer these days

i'm not a lawyer but it's really not hard to find