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• @squaresinger@lemmy.world 2026-08-31 15:46

  I’m not sure it’s quite so clear cut, especially with cloud-hosted AI. Yes, the user did issue the original prompt but the service was performed by a company that was paid for it. Legally, there’s not much difference whether a company uses a human or a computer program to perform work. Imagine the user issuing the prompt not to an AI but e.g. to a chat with a human service worker working at OpenAI. The user tells the worker “Please find a way to advance me in the queue”, and then that human employee of OpenAI goes and hacks the gym software to remove someone else from the queue. What do you think, who would be liable for that? Let’s make the argument a bit more extreme: The human asks to be advanced in the queue, and then the human OpenAI employee grabs a gun and starts killing people on the wait list. Who do you think would be liable in this case? It’s important to remember, AI isn’t just an emergent entity created from thin air. AI are computer programs created by huge corporations and in the case of cloud-hosted LLMs they are a service provided by huge corporations. I don’t believe that a service provided by a corporation should be legally treated differently whether it’s provided via the help of a computer program or a human being.

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