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Accountability exists for two reasons:

1. To make those harmed whole. On this, you have a good point. The desire of AI firms or those using AI to be indemnified from the harms their use of AI causes is a problem as they will harm people. But it isn't relevant to the question of whether LLMs are useful or whether they beat a human.

2. To incentivize the human to behave properly. This is moot with LLMs. There is no laziness or competing incentive for them.



> This is moot

That’s not a positive at all, the complete opposite. It’s not about laziness but being able to somewhat accurately estimate and balance risk/benefit ratio.

The fact that making a wrong decision would have significant costs for you and other people should have a significant influence on decision making.


> This is moot with LLMs. There is no laziness or competing incentive for them.

The incentives for the LLM are dictated by the company, at the moment it only seems to be 'whatever ensures we continue to get sales'.




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