Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wikipedia isn’t giving you advice, it’s giving you information. There is a big difference between me taking information and forming an opinion, versus being given an opinion by a system that is responding to a specific situation explained to it.

  Okay lets try this then:

  Chat bots aren’t giving you advice, it’s giving you information. There is a big difference between me taking information and forming an opinion, versus being given an opinion by a system that is responding to a specific situation explained to it.

  Show me the difference.

  Also, people get in trouble for giving legal advice,

  No, they don’t, unless they are genuinely misrepresenting their positions. Sovcit influencers are well within their rights to make up all kinds of gobbly-gookey-garbage pseudo-legal advice.

  People who get in trouble are those that follow the gobbly-gookey-garbage pseudo-legal advice.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chat bots aren’t giving you advice, it’s giving you information.

    They aren’t giving you information either. They’re just compiling tokens.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the difference between giving information and giving advice is context. if i know your situation, i am giving advice. if i am just talking about the law in general, i am giving information.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Let’s swap out a chatbot with a sloptuber on YouTube making up stuff about sovereign citizen nonsense. How about then.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        again it’s context. are they talking about someone’s specific sitiation or are they talking generalities. does the advice they are giving have context. some rando on youtube, if they’re making up stuff in response to people’s specific questions about their problems and “not” telling them what to do, that can fall afoul of illegal practice of law. if they’re talking about general “well you need gold fringe on your conveyor’s license because admiral keystone q transyldracula said…” in the same way some law youtubers talk about “well here’s how due process works”, it sucks but they have free speech. just the former example is one of the limits on it. again, not a lawyer, just have been too embroiled in the legal field all my life.

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