Is the legal system broken somehow it's a legit issue, or do their legal teams have some sort of PTSD so they're scared of any ideas of lawsuit no matter how frivolous, so they make weirdest business-affecting decisions?
I mean, if the LLM drops some slurs, gives a recipe for bananadine, or even goes all Bender suggesting we kiss its shiny metal ass or it kills all humans - how, in the name of all that's still sane in this world, it's a lawsuit material?
I imagined it's morke likely to be about activists on offense watch, cranking it up to 11 making bad PR (still weird, but people are weird and this sort of stuff happens), than some legal issues.
Section 230 has been subject to numerous reforms and proposals in recent years, so yes it's a very real legal issue that platforms are keeping an eye on. FOSTA is an example, in which platforms all had to make changes and now constantly take down posts related to those acts. Another proposal to amend 230 ("Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act") is that platforms are stripped of their legal liability protections for what is posted if they cannot prove they are "politically neutral".
Section 230 only immunizes service providers for the contents of users' posts, not its own content. It can't immunize Google from being responsible for Gemini's output.
> still weird, but people are weird and this sort of stuff happens
I wouldn't be surprised if there were actual PR agencies involved in larger shitstorms. Activists are weird, true, but wild brigading is not a thing of an initiative, it's an "also-ran" thing. The instigators are often level-headed and cynical.
I mean, if the LLM drops some slurs, gives a recipe for bananadine, or even goes all Bender suggesting we kiss its shiny metal ass or it kills all humans - how, in the name of all that's still sane in this world, it's a lawsuit material?
I imagined it's morke likely to be about activists on offense watch, cranking it up to 11 making bad PR (still weird, but people are weird and this sort of stuff happens), than some legal issues.