The leaders of these LLM companies should be held criminally liable for their pr...

logicx24 · 2026-02-13T23:23:42 1771025022

Regular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.

longfacehorrace · 2026-02-13T23:35:07 1771025707

Regular people don't have global reach and influence over humanity's agency, attention, beliefs, politics and economics.

logicx24 · 2026-02-14T01:45:39 1771033539

If Donald Trump did this, he wouldn't be criminally liable either.

sumeno · 2026-02-13T23:33:25 1771025605

There have absolutely been cases of people being held criminally liable for encouraging someone to commit suicide.

In California it is a felony

> Any person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony.

zahlman · 2026-02-14T00:07:31 1771027651

>>>> helped... write a suicide note.

> encouraging someone to commit suicide.

These are not the same thing. And the evidence from the article is that the bot was anything but encouraging of this plan, up until the end.

sumeno · 2026-02-14T00:39:39 1771029579

That's for the jury to decide.

FireBeyond · 2026-02-14T00:21:00 1771028460

Very cherry picked. That would absolutely be "aiding" someone. "I don't want my family to worry about what's happening".

lokar · 2026-02-13T23:39:15 1771025955

A therapist might face major consequences

wiseowise · 2026-02-13T23:31:23 1771025483

Held criminally liable for what, exactly?