Christopher Mims
“Artificial intelligence generates poetry. It generates polemics today that would be content that goes beyond picking, choosing, analyzing or digesting content. And that is not protected.”
-- Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, opining last year during a case that wasn't about AI, signaling how he'd rule were the question of whether companies are responsible for what their AIs say and do to come before the court
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Christopher Mims
At least one litigator I talked to said that without action from Congress (which is unlikely) the threat of legal liability from using generative AI could become an "unsustainable burden" for many companies.
(Others argued it would mean only the biggest would continue to offer it to the public.)
Could this be an existential threat to today's public chat-bot LLMs?
I mean, yes! Which is why it's wild that so few people are talking about it, as far as I can tell.
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Christopher Mims
“If we have these [generative AI] tools, and large volumes of people are doing dangerous things as a result of receiving garbage information from them, I’d argue it isn’t necessarily a bad thing to assign cost or liability as a result of these harms, or to make it unprofitable to offer these technologies.”
-- Michael Karanicolas, executive director of the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy at UCLA
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