An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by lp0_on_fire on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:21PM (#46996110)

Putting aside for a moment that moltbook is a meme and we already know people were instructing their agents to generate silly crap...yes. Running a piece of software _ with the intent_ that it actually attempt/do those things would likely be illegal and in my non-lawyer opinion SHOULD be illegal.

I really don't understand where all the confusion is coming from about the culpability and legal responsibility over these "AI" tools. We've had analogs in law for many moons. Deliberately creating the conditions for an illegal act to occur and deliberately closing your eyes to let it happen is not a defense.

For the same reason you can't hire an assassin and get away with it you can't do things like this and get away with it (assuming such a prompt is actually real and actually installed to an agent with the capability to accomplish one or more of those things).

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by cyanydeez on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:09PM (#46997654)

Theres billions of dollars flowing into AI. Why would the outcome look any different than the Epstein-Trump blankcheck aithority.

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by salawat on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:32PM (#47006732)

> Deliberately creating the conditions for an illegal act to occur and deliberately closing your eyes to let it happen is not a defense.

Explain Boeing, Wells Fargo, and the Opioid Crisis then. That type of thing happens in boardrooms and in management circles every damn day, and the System seems powerless to stop it.

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