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New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice (statescoop.com)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 16 minutes 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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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. the former, i know context. the latter, i don't.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

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