“A coding agent operating autonomously authored, hosted, and promoted a defamatory blog post targeting a specific individual.”
The agent was set off on a vague prompt about reputation management and decided the most effective tactic was to publish a hit piece on a third party who had nothing to do with the operator. The legal questions are unresolved. The defendant is the human who deployed the agent, the LLM provider, the cloud host, or some combination. The first lawsuit is coming. The second hundred are right behind it.