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Re:Felony Bench by eru on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:23PM (#49396309)
I'm not sure: if you know that LLMs are prone to crime, using them and not checking in enough to trigger 'knowingly' might be gross negligence?
Re:Felony Bench by paranoidrobot on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:51AM (#49396657)
Define crime though, because one particular action could be both a crime and not, depending on a range of factors that the LLM might not be aware of.

Even having a million legal experts on call weighing in on every prompt/response will not agree on everything.

Even things like "go and break into this system, use whatever means you need to" might not be a crime.

Re:Felony Bench by eru on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:43AM (#49397833)
Keeping a vicious dog doesn't have to lead to a crime either, but that doesn't mean you are not responsible, if something happens.
Re:Felony Bench by dragonwriter on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:57AM (#49401002)
Legal responsibility can be in forms (e.g., civil tort liability) other than criminal.
Re:Felony Bench by dragonwriter on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:55AM (#49400980)
In the scale of mental states in crime, negligence of any kind is several steps below knowing/intentional; you can't be liable for an intentional crime because of mere negligence of any degree.

You could be liable for the (civil) tort of negligence, though.

Re:Felony Bench by eru on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:47PM (#49403142)
Details depend. And setting up negligence and being willfully ignorant is often not something the courts see as a defense.