Of course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved without the benefit of hindsight, given that we've seen no technology like this until just 4 years ago.

If there was a case to be made for criminal negligence, I would say it would be with the AI-assisted suicides, and lawsuits are pending but we've not seen anything come out of that yet.

> Go look up the facts of weev's case. weev's intent was very obviously benign and prosocial.

Oh I'm very familiar with the case, which is why I know the investigation revealed detailed chat logs where weev and his accomplice discussed multiple ways to illegally profit from the breach, including shorting AT&T stock, selling the data to spammers / phishers, or organizing a spamming / phishing operation themselves.

I am very curious about what sources led you to associate the words "prosocial" and "benign" because weev is very, very, very clearly a noxious, antisocial person who spends a lot of his time harassing people. I would recommend you feed "weev criticism" into a Google AI overview. Random quote from his wikipedia:

> In early October 2014, The Daily Stormer published an article by Auernheimer in which he effectively identified himself as a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. He is known for his "extremely violent rhetoric advocating genocide of non-whites", according to the SPLC.

And as you said, he got off on a technicality. That case was heralded as a triumph of justice purely because it followed the rule of law despite the obviously unlawful intents of the defendant.