Look at the recent news that Anthropic will ban users that insult their models. How can it make any logic sense?
But it could easily become "punishable by law" also:
- Abusing (non sexually) a fictitious person that is a LLM.
- Insulting a LLM in a chat box, based on a fact that it speaks and appear to behave like a human. The LLM can pretend and simulate that it is offended if you forget that it is just bytes behind.
And in the end, how to consider the following case:
- You have a government call center for a public service, you are aggressive and insult the agent -> it is potentially a legal crime
- Now the agent of this public service that you are talking to is in fact an AI, clearly stated as so, an you insult it very aggressively. -> No human being is hurt so should it be an legal offense?