This is a really interesting legal issue. What recourse does a private person have to algorithmically-generated libel?
Can I sue the company? They’re the ones who trained the model, but there’s no intent.
Could I sue the user? They’re the one who generated the response, but there’s no intent nor duty to fact check, if they don’t repeat the claim.
Do I have to subpoena OpenAI, reverse engineer the response, then sue the creators of the likely-responsible training data? They probably wrote something non-libelous.
It feels very all or nothing - either creators of LLMs are intrinsically negligent with regard to facts, or there’s nothing you can do.
Can I sue the company? They’re the ones who trained the model, but there’s no intent.
Could I sue the user? They’re the one who generated the response, but there’s no intent nor duty to fact check, if they don’t repeat the claim.
Do I have to subpoena OpenAI, reverse engineer the response, then sue the creators of the likely-responsible training data? They probably wrote something non-libelous.
It feels very all or nothing - either creators of LLMs are intrinsically negligent with regard to facts, or there’s nothing you can do.