Original Reddit post

When it comes to legal things, AI views itself as a human being, subject to the same laws and rules. I’ve noticed this most when dealing with things involving copyright. It is perfectly legal for me to take an existing copyrighted game, unpack it’s files, look around, edit things, repack them, mod the game and keep it for myself. It’s just not legal for me to distribute it, but having it privately and playing it just myself is totally fine and legal. But AI like ChatGPT views itself as a person, and it will not help with this directly. It will make tools and unpackers and repackers for me to use, and build .bat files for me so I can use them to mod the game, but it will not edit the files itself and distribute them to me because it thinks this is illegal as it views itself as a person. Every time I try to explain to these AI that it is not a person, and, with all due respect, a tool that I am using, they argue that they “understand” but they are still acting as a person and still, for legal reasons, are a person and it is illegal for them to distribute these files to me as it violates copyright laws. I do not understand this. Are they right? I am privately using ChatGPT, I am not distributing the files, and am using it as a tool but I cannot get it to have any view other than “I understand I am an AI but it is illegal and violates copyright laws for me to edit and distribute files to you.” submitted by /u/Dogbold

Originally posted by u/Dogbold on r/ArtificialInteligence