[sokoloff]

If I build a chat bot that encourages people to off themselves, am I in the clear because I didn’t take any destructive action and my chat bot didn’t either?

[Wilder7977]

Apparently yes, judging from the fact that ChatGPT did that with a number of people.

My question though it's another: is it malware a software that does a stdout print, or is it malware a software that takes untrusted instructions and executes commands it decides based on it?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> is it malware a software that does a stdout print,

If that print is intended to cause damage, then yes.

> or is it malware a software that takes untrusted instructions and executes commands it decides based on it?

No, bash is not malware, even if you pipe curl to it.

[lostmsu]

I would say yes unless they are minors, but the laws in many places don't.