phutatorius

Minors cannot be signatories to a contract. Nothing the parent does can change that.

If someone agrees to unlawful contract terms, those terms have no legal force, and depending on the wording of the contract, it could potentially invalidate the whole contract (though there's usually fine print about separability that deals with that eventuality).

It would be a bit strange for me that children have no rights.

That's because it's not true.

Minors (except immigrants who have not been naturalized) are citzens, and they do have rights. For example, minors can be issued passports, and cannot lawfully be deported. That's because they're citizens.

Also, you can't just walk down the street and kill a minor. That's an example of a right that everyone has, regardless of whether they're citizens. Generally, the Constitution refers to such people as persons rather than citizens.

The vast majority of minors are not wards of the state, the only exception being those who are declared wards of the state through explicit legal procedures.

So nothing you said was correct.

The real rationale for Roblox being full of shit is that minors cannot execute contracts. And there are what are called unconscionable contracts, which are invalid even if the signatory is not a minor.

More to the point: what the fuck, Schneier?

The correct thing to do is to announce that there will be no bailout, and there will be criminal liability for any fraudulent practices that drove the hype cycle. Anything else will just encourage an even worse mega-scam next time. Let 'em burn to the fucking ground. Until and unless there's proper accountability and meaningful controls, we don't need LLMs.

Yeah, because the government picking winners has such a stellar track record. /s

I'd ask a different set of questions:

What power have you got?

Where did you get it from?

In whose interests do you exercise it?

To whom are you accountable?

And how can we get rid of you?

Win/win!

management will never take accountability for it’s own decisions.

They'll only do it if forced. That's what the law is for.

t>he entity hosting the model should be held accountable

Not necessarily. If I buy a machine from a vendor, fail to test it to confirm that it's safe to use in the way I intend to use it, and one of my employees gets maimed or killed by it, I'm liable, even though some liability might also be assignable to the manufacturer.

An LLM's response to a prompt is not necessarily a repeatable process.

You can ringfence it all you like and keep your MBAs entertained working out separation of responsibilities. But anyone with root can bypass any audit log. And someone always has root.