Doesn’t really stop them from ignoring it anyway.

Google search or stackoverfow did it long before LLMs

These examples had very obvious attribution and were an easy path to you. AI on the other hand serves as the source of truth in almost all scenarios. I consider myself a savvy user and even then I find myself never actually clicking on the cited sites - just looking at their titles, most people don’t even bother with that.

Y’all just need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps

Also factor in when they die. Maybe your action results in a demise after a period of time. Lung Cancer won’t kill someone right after they puff a cigarette, so the cigarette baron may not consider it his fault in the sort term.

How’s the public screwed in this?