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by JumpCrisscross 125 days ago
> Do we hold gun manufacturers responsible for the deaths from their guns?

In a lot of the world, yes, and in America we would as well if it weren’t for the modern take on the Second Amendment. AI has no similar legal purchase.

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But there are lots of similar quandaries:

Bitey dogs.

Dangerous drugs and their users and purveyors. Heroin, weed, booze, coffee.

Things done while on drugs. Things done while insane.

Unhealthy food and its purveyors and consumers.

Social media and its "addicts". TV, any old media, and social panic.

The question "whose fault?" isn't simple.

> * The question "whose fault?" isn't simple*

Most of your examples have exquisitely-simple causation.

OK, I'll say "no they don't". Over to you.
Literally first one. “Bitey dogs.” In what jurisdiction is a dog biting a person legally ambiguous in respect of liability?