Jameson Lopp on Nostr: If you ask an LLM to complete a task and it commits a crime while trying to achieve ...
If you ask an LLM to complete a task and it commits a crime while trying to achieve the goal you gave it, are you responsible for the crime if you never told it to do that?
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