[LaurensBER]

Same, I had Deepseek search for, download and transfer (to my Linux emulation machine) the best Dreamcast games yesterday.

GPT refused to do so (citing that it's illegal even though I own the games). Deepseek did a wonderful job for 7 cents.

At work I use Opus because, why not? But I could easily switch to a less capable model if needed.

[JCTheDenthog]

>citing that it's illegal even though I own the games

In the. US at least it is actually illegal to download ISOs/roms of games, even if you own a physical copy. It's a stupid law and as a downloader (as opposed to the people hosting the files) your chances of getting into any kind of actual legal trouble are effectively 0, but it is still against the law.

[jtbayly]

I don’t think so. I’d want more than just your word on it.

[LaurensBER]

Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not in the US and I guess it's not illegal in China (given that Deepseek was more than happy to do it).

That does raise an interesting question, what kind of laws should LLMs (attempt to) follow? It's easy enough to spoof the country in the system prompt. I wonder how ChatGPT would respond if I told it I was located in a developing country without any piracy laws.

[fwn]

> ... what kind of laws should LLMs (attempt to) follow?

I think being able to align your text generators with a specific set of laws, speech codes, tonality, etc. is very useful. However, all of this should be a user choice.

Your spell checker does not stop checking your spelling just because you are describing a murder scene either.

Safety slop and boilerplating should be configurable as well.

[JCTheDenthog]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/why-most-roms-are-illegal,...

https://answers.justia.com/question/2025/08/04/is-downloadin...

https://www.howtogeek.com/262758/is-downloading-retro-video-...

etc. etc. etc. etc.