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Comment Re:What I'm reading (Score 1) 50

People don't pay capital depreciation. It's a bookkeeping technique to reflect that durable capital assets don't last forever. People pay for the assets up front. Capital depreciation decreases the book (=accounting fiction) value of the asset and spreads the tax deduction for the purchase expense over the same time.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 166

I can't tell what point you think you're making with your first sentence. It has booting to do with this.

You could check the law if you want to know how it define "protected"! There are three prongs, connected by "or"; the broadest one says a "protected computer" is any "which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States". If someone orders from Amazon, streams from Netflix or uses a cloud-based LLM from the computer, it's protected under CFAA. As Wikipedia puts it:

In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the interstate nature of most Internet communication.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 166

The law in question here makes it a crime when someone "knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer". Do you think that's satisfied by your sign hypothetical? I think you've left out some of the elements related to intent, and made the "causes the transmission" element much less clear. That's why I did not say anything like what you suggest.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 166

In this case, that's the person who snuck malicious instructions into the prompt, intending for it to destroy data.

This isn't rocket science. There are projects that do the same kind of thing conscientiously -- they have an AGENTS.md or a section in their README that basically tells an AI agent not to write code or create a bug report or whatever. Bad users can work around that, but those bad users are less harmful than the kind of person who prompt-injects malware.

Comment Re:Wrong side of history (Score 1) 166

The LLM companies are not causing the transmission of the command to delete things. If anyone, it's the jqwik developer who made test code generate the instruction at runtime in a hidden form.

The intent to damage is crystal clear here, and the attempt to hide the command makes it easy to assign responsibility for the knowing transmission of the command.

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