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What can a LLM generate that's illegal in the USA? Specifically a text-only LLM?
by weberer 25d ago
What can a LLM generate that's illegal in the USA? Specifically a text-only LLM?
- xtracto 25d agoText for pamphlets criticizing the ICE?
- weberer 25d agoThat's not illegal in any way.
- vunderba 24d agohttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/... Legality was never ICE's strong suit.
- weberer 24d agoIts amazing how biased that source is and how much it buried the lede. They were arrested for participating in a riot where someone attempted to murder a police officer. That's not just someone criticizing ICE on social media. If it was, half the posters in any political thread on HN would already be arrested. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/antifa-cell-members-convicted-prairieland-ice-detention-center-shooting https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/antifa-cell-members-convicted...
- Zambyte 25d agoBlackmail, incitement, libel, and basically anything that comes up if you search "computer crimes".
- naasking 24d agoGenerating blackmail is not illegal, using it to blackmail someone is. Generating libel is not illegal, publishing it publicly is not illegal either although you can be sued over it. Generating worms and computer viruses is not illegal last I checked, but disseminating them is.
- Zambyte 24d agoLLMs have been able to make the leap between generating and sending for years now. I'm not sure what your point is.
- naasking 24d agoMy point is that generating is not illegal but sending is. Your whole point hinges on legality, so the distinction between legal and illegal seems pretty key.