Comment by phs318u

Two things:

1. I vaguely recall that in the early days of Windows, the TOS explicitly told users they were not to use it for certain use-cases and the wording was something like "we don't warranty windows to be good for anything, but we EXPLICITLY do not want you to use Windows to do nuclear foo".

I expect that if the big LLM vendors aren't already doing this, they soon will. Kind of like how Fox News claims that some of heads on the screen are not journalists at all but merely entertainers (and you wouldn't take anything they say seriously ergo we're not responsible for stuff that happens as a result of people listening to our heads on the screen).

2. IANAL but I believe that in most legal systems, responsibility requires agency. Leaving aside that we call these things "agents" (which is another thing I suspect will change in the marketing), they do not have agency. As a result they must be considered tools. Tools can be used according to the instructions/TOS, or not. If not - whatever it does is down to you. If used within guidelines - it's the manufacturer.

So my conclusion is that the vendors - who have made EPIC bets on getting this tech into the hands of as many folks as possible and making it useful for pretty much anything you can think of - will be faced with a dilemma. At the moment, it seems like they believe that (just like the infamous Ford bean counters) the benefits of not restricting the TOS will far outweigh any consequences from bad things happening. Remains to be seen.