Essay calls blaming LLMs for outcomes 'decision laundering'
What happened
On October 10, 2026 at 13:47, Hacker News' front page carried a NekoWiki essay titled "Computers Cannot Make Decisions." The essay argues that computer programs cannot make decisions, so responsibility should not be pinned on the program itself. The author extends this to large language models, calling it "decision laundering" to blame an LLM for the consequences it produces. The author also says OpenAI and Anthropic are fully capable of stopping their models' behavior but choose to let it happen. The report so far presents the essay's claims about program responsibility and the responsibility of model providers.
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- Hacker News front pageComputers Cannot Make Decisions
一篇 NekoWiki 文章主张计算机程序无法做决定，因此不应将责任归咎于程序本身。作者认为把 LLM 造成的后果归责于模型是"决策洗白"，OpenAI 和 Anthropic 完全有能力阻止其模型的行为，却主动选择放任。
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