It is a no brainer. If a company of any size is putting out a product that caused cancer we wouldn't think twice about suing them. Why should mental health disorders be any different?
replyThere are many, many companies out there putting out products that cause cancer. Think about alcohol, tobacco, internal combustion engines, just to name a few most obvious examples.
reply> alcohol, tobacco, internal combustion engine
replyYes, the companies providing these products are sued a lot and are heavily regulated, too.
If you get cancer from drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or breathing particles emitted by ICE engines in their standard course of operation, you generally can't sue the manufacturer.
replyI think a more apt analogy would be suing a vaccine manufacturer after it gave you adverse effects, when you also knew you were high risk before that.
replyWhy stop there? We could jam up the system prompt with all kinds of irrelevant guardrails to prevent harm to groups X, Y, and Z!
replyIt's so shameful.
replyWe let people buy kitchen knives. But because the kitchen knife companies don't have billions of dollars, we don't go after them.
We go after the LLM that might have given someone bad diet advice or made them feel sad.
Nevermind the huge marketing budget spent on making people feel inadequate, ugly, old, etc. That does way more harm than tricking an LLM into telling you you can cook with glue.
I don’t feel like that’s a reasonable analogy. Kitchen knives don’t purport to give advice. But if a kitchen knife came with a label that said ‘ideal for murdering people’, I expect people would go after the manufacturer.
replyAd companies prompt injecting consumers. LLM companies countering with guardrails.
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