Another benefit of criminalizing the model itself is that the system it applies to open-weight vs closed-weight models. (Whereas punishing only the creator of an open weight model doesn’t do much good if the open-weight model continues to be used and cause harm.)
Even if we could get around limited liability corporations in some way, or around all the loopholes companies could come up with making spin-off shell corporations to absorb liability of dangerous models, a liability policy like the one proposed here would do basically nothing to protect dangerous open-weight models from being run by others.
Whereas with my proposal, if an open-weight model does something very bad—there would at least be an avenue for it becoming illegal for anyone to run it. IMO That’s a good thing.
Another benefit of criminalizing the model itself is that the system it applies to open-weight vs closed-weight models. (Whereas punishing only the creator of an open weight model doesn’t do much good if the open-weight model continues to be used and cause harm.)
Even if we could get around limited liability corporations in some way, or around all the loopholes companies could come up with making spin-off shell corporations to absorb liability of dangerous models, a liability policy like the one proposed here would do basically nothing to protect dangerous open-weight models from being run by others.
Whereas with my proposal, if an open-weight model does something very bad—there would at least be an avenue for it becoming illegal for anyone to run it. IMO That’s a good thing.