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> Why do we need laws around this? We need to hold the people accountable [...] [T]he people that okay'd its use need to take responsibility.

Genuinely asking: what do you think profitable companies would do to their ML engineers over a product issue like this if there was no law under which they would be sued?

I think accountability without an enforcement mechanism is just a wishful suggestion.

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>what do you think profitable companies would do to their ML engineers over a product issue like this if there was no law under which they would be sued?

Nothing. Maybe a reprimand at best, because the consequences of this are fairly minor. If a store erroneously bans you and them unbans you and says that there was a mixup with their policy, then what do you think should be the consequences to the store? If it's effectively a monopoly then I can see there being problems, but if it's just a random store then that doesn't really matter.

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