a contract killer who kills contracts
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this actually arose because a washington post tech reporter whose story is paywalled found that the openai tos claims to prohibit use for suicide or self-harm and that this indemnifies them from having killed that kid https://bsky.app/profile/gerritd.bsky.social/post/3m6ijlszels27 + https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/02/chatgpt-parental-controls-suicide-openai/
@hipsterelectron that is so skeevy wth
and by that logic you could commit murder by getting someone to click ok to access your website
"they're calling him the contract killer"
i think this is like the final boss of clickthrough contracts and corporate deregulation
the terms of service are a contract and contracts can do a lot but there are provisions that are not enforceable (the law limiting its ability for misuse). i still don't really know how this will turn out because corps can do an incredible amount of harm and balancing tests have been eroded in many ways and now often require some form of intent and knowledge of the harm, which of course LLMs were very specifically created to circumvent
there are other facts of the case but i'm choosing to fixate on this one as one of the most thoroughly evil things i've seen from corporate lawyers in my life. i have no doubt it will be surpassed
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@hipsterelectron ffs that's even more direct than the disney thing a while back