HN is going to have to acknowledge that the hype/controversy/reprisal loop exists for new technologies. There's a lot of people scared of AI, just as there are a lot of people scared of self-driving cars.

In both cases the tech solution has been to disclaim all responsibility onto the user. The self-driving car can disengage at any time, meaning that the human was responsible for the last second before the crash. Similarly, people are going to say that chat AI producing "bad" output is purely a function of the prompt. Neither of these are going to wash with the general public once people start getting killed. Or even just inundated with slurs - remember "Tay"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

We're still a way off the first chatgpt casualty, which I'm guessing will be someone who asked it for medical advice or how to identify mushrooms or similar.