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Comment by x86x87 | Hacker News Reader

remember when llms were a tool and you could use them however you wanted? pepperidge farms remembers

can't wait for the day when you end up in jail for the wrong prompt or when you will be served ads through the kazoo.

The U.S. labs may try to prevent their LLMs to be used for large-scale replicating of all software, hacking, etc, but I don’t understand the view that those things are history - I think they will become incredibly commonplace, especially if there aren’t any cross-industry standards. Do you really believe that it won’t become more commonplace over time?

> can't wait for the day when you end up in jail for the wrong prompt

I also can't wait for yesterday.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-man-allegedly-dis...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004747/...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/27/chatgpt...

That’s not really an LLM thing though - if she made the same comment on a Facebook post, she’d face the same consequences.

Is there no difference between posting something publicly and prompting a tool privately? Intent seems different to me.

I’ve said some pretty obscene things to Siri out of frustration and haven’t gotten arrested yet.

While I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice, Florida's law seems to cover any electronic communication of threats like they made. Telling Siri off is quite different from what they did.

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