All crimes punish the group of people doing that crime. A bill of attainder targets an individual or a related group of individuals (like family members). But legislation to criminalize an action that happens to be done by only a small number of individuals is not a bill of attainder.
its illegal (I think) to suggest or call for the hanging of someone
Only if it’s a specific, actionable threat intended to be taken literally. But if, for example, it’s advocating a prosecution that might end with capital punishment, that’s protected speech. “Let justice be done.”
is it illegal to publish and support legislation calling for the execution of public figures involved in X Y Z?
No.
Here’s a compromise: liquidate the company and donate all your ill-gotten gains to the cause of smashing capitalism and ending the surveillance state, then we might consider treating you with a small measure of leniency.
The opposition is to big tech in service of repressive oligarchy.
Yeah, but he wasn’t a billionaire.
Yeah, and horseless carriages beat humans over 100m more than a century ago.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
I don’t care what they admit. I want to see justice done.
Estimates of your price sensitivity and depth of pocket based on intrusive private-sector surveillance.
Minors cannot be signatories to a contract. Nothing the parent does can change that.
If someone agrees to unlawful contract terms, those terms have no legal force, and depending on the wording of the contract, it could potentially invalidate the whole contract (though there’s usually fine print about separability that deals with that eventuality).
It would be a bit strange for me that children have no rights.
That’s because it’s not true.
Minors (except immigrants who have not been naturalized) are citzens, and they do have rights. For example, minors can be issued passports, and cannot lawfully be deported. That’s because they’re citizens.
Also, you can’t just walk down the street and kill a minor. That’s an example of a right that everyone has, regardless of whether they’re citizens. Generally, the Constitution refers to such people as persons rather than citizens.
The vast majority of minors are not wards of the state, the only exception being those who are declared wards of the state through explicit legal procedures.
So nothing you said was correct.
The real rationale for Roblox being full of shit is that minors cannot execute contracts. And there are what are called unconscionable contracts, which are invalid even if the signatory is not a minor.
More to the point: what the fuck, Schneier?
The correct thing to do is to announce that there will be no bailout, and there will be criminal liability for any fraudulent practices that drove the hype cycle. Anything else will just encourage an even worse mega-scam next time. Let 'em burn to the fucking ground. Until and unless there’s proper accountability and meaningful controls, we don’t need LLMs.
Yeah, because the government picking winners has such a stellar track record. /s
I’d ask a different set of questions:
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you exercise it?
To whom are you accountable?
And how can we get rid of you?
management will never take accountability for it’s own decisions.
They’ll only do it if forced. That’s what the law is for.
t>he entity hosting the model should be held accountable
Not necessarily. If I buy a machine from a vendor, fail to test it to confirm that it’s safe to use in the way I intend to use it, and one of my employees gets maimed or killed by it, I’m liable, even though some liability might also be assignable to the manufacturer.
An LLM’s response to a prompt is not necessarily a repeatable process.
Scaphism needs a revival.