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New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice (statescoop.com)
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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s problematic imho bc the “advice” is often incomplete, without context, or wrong. So you end up having to verify it yourself anyway. But if you don’t then you could have harmful advice.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Which to be fair is not any different from a lawyer. They're not perfect either.

The difference is that a lawyer can be held responsible for malpractice. When a chatbot gives harmful advice, who is responsible?

(Obviously, whoever is running it, but so far that hasn't been established in court.)