> They're legally culpable for the consequences of the machine they made.

Ah, I love this argument. In my country cars are legally required to stop at a pedestrian crossing if there are people beside it. Some people use that as an argument as to why they can just walk out into the crossing without even looking at the traffic. "It's the driver's fault! They are legally culpable!" True, but you'll also be dead.

I'm not going to say you're victim-blaming, but I will say that there are degrees of difference between "looking both ways before crossing the street" and "hardening my website against unforeseen attacks by rogue AI agents."

AI black-hatting your website is not the same sort of foreseeable consequence that crossing the street without looking is.

> I'm not going to say you're victim-blaming, but

Just throwing it out there are we? "I'm not going to say you are but I'll use the word to create an association"

Victim-blaming is the act of saying someone brought something on themselves for <reasons>. I'm saying that even if you are 100% in the right, it doesn't act like a protective shield preventing you from harm which too many people seem to unconsciously believe.

> AI black-hatting your website is not the same sort of foreseeable consequence

Well, popular culture has been brimming with the bad consequences of runaway AI for quite some time, so even if your imagination fails you, there have been hints.

Nonsense comparison. It would instead be like me saying "I didn't fail to stop, the car did."

But moreover, if what you were suggesting was a real problem, nobody would ever be brought to justice for murder because the victims are always dead.

Yeah, this is on those irresponsible companies that...are offering Internet services. Those hussies.

And that driver will be punished and no longer driving

Not generally true in the United States.

And you'd still be dead.

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You're arguing against a point literally nobody is making. You're inventing imaginary viewpoints to be mad at. Nobody is saying it's not necessary to secure your services. They're saying the organization responsible for the hacks (the owner of the LLM) is responsible for damages.