alt Hacker NewsStarting an autonomous harness program is conceiving an instance of an LLM.
How far back do you look in the action chain? If an LLM I start today starts an LLM that starts an LLM that starts an LLM that ... 100000 levels deep and 100000 years in the future, is it still my fault? If so, everything I do today is a lungfish's fault, not mine.
I think you go back to the original instance, yes.
In your example, who's paying for it? Whether by providing the hardware + power or paying a LLM service. Whoever is paying the maintenance cost is responsible, in the event of your demise. These things run on physical hardware owned by someone at the end of the day, it's not a deity in the atmosphere.
You're starting the autonomous harness, you're responsible for any output it provides. I don't get how this is a foreign concept.
If I jump out of a moving car that I'm driving, I'm not suddenly absolved from damages because "the car did it"