Oct 11, 2026, 8:12 PMADDENDUM: This really could become the new benchmark for coding LLMs! How good are they at reproducing software like Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite? In percent :) The German word Schadenfreude was invented for this, in my opinion. Oh, the irony of using "AI" in this way! "Back at you" would be the fitting term in English, I guess? #SarcasmButOnlyHalf
Oct 12, 2026, 8:24 AMThis could lead (after many years of court cases) to fundamental questions: Can prompts for "AI" be illegal (more precise: if a prompt intentionally leads to results that violate the law — who committed the crime?) And if illegal prompts exist — must "AI" companies ensure their models refuse to act on illegal prompts to avoid liability? Or are models free to produce results that violate laws and the blame goes to the person/entity that wrote the prompt (what if that was an "AI" itself)?
Oct 12, 2026, 8:30 AMExtrapolating to the max (as that is what you do in risk calculation. Take it to extremes to be prepared.) Will this be used to eventually outlaw running and/or training your own models on your own machines? Because the liability risk becomes the limiting factor? Thus leading to an oligopoly of models that can handle liability risks?
Oct 11, 2026, 8:21 PM@jwildeboer leedvermaak Jan, leedvermaak (;
@jwildeboer please don't reproduce Microsoft Office. It's mental lock-in as well.
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net “can you vibe Excel on it” to replace run Doom on it
@jwildeboer Knowing how copyright works in many capitalist structures, this is indeed the logical conclusion.
The (bittersweet) dilemma of course is that you can approximate this (when being careful) with tools like gzip - should we outlaw the usage of compression as well? Should we outlaw matrix multiplication alltogether? Should we outlaw personal compute? I think the collaterals of this are potentially massive.
Oct 12, 2026, 2:47 PM@jwildeboer I was thinking exactly the same, when I saw this!
Regarding the liability...what happens, if you prompt slightly differently, not just merely copy an existing app, but combining the best use cases of an entire category of apps?
And topping it up with some features you always dared to have?
The code I think could be largely different, so in any case I predict you achieve results without copyright on code merits...
Fun to watch and wondering, what SW business would look like in a year
@jwildeboer Personally, and I’m no lawyer, if you use an ai to generate hate speech or whatever you want to call it you are responsible for the prompt that generates the output?, if you send someone a racist text are you blaming your phones message system or WhatsApp which ever delivers the message even though you have composed the message and pressed send?
You’re probably going to get a lot of responses hopefully on this.
Just my thoughts! 🤷♂️🤷♂️
@jwildeboer LLMs are just (stochastic) machines.
If someone direct a gun at someone and pulls the trigger and the bullet from the gun kills someone then it the firer who is the committing the crime not the gun manufacturer.
That the bullet may hit the wrong person is not a mitigation for the firer and the gun manufacturer who make inaccurate guns is not responsible for the death.
Of course in civilised countries (not the US) access to firearms is heavily limited.
Oct 12, 2026, 8:46 AM@marjolica On the other hand, there are many, many cases where manufacturers are responsible and liable for faulty products causing harm. Think car manufacturers, pharmaceuticals etc. Gun manufacturers are the exception, not the norm, in my opinion.
@jwildeboer Tesla (admittedly an American company) seems to diagree and think that a waiver signed by by the user, but required for the use, is a complete get out if its 'autopilot' or defective by design door handles kill or injure you.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are also not responsible if a user misuses their product, eg to poison or overdose someone. They are clearly responsible if the product doesn't perform as promised or they didn't do due enough due diligence as to possible side effects before they released it and someone who uses it for its declared purposes is injured by it.