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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (23 children)

I mean.

Is the wikipedia responsible for you reading an article about a law and then taking that as legal advice?

[Edit: if you are downvoting this, downvote away, but you owe an argument below as to why. I promise this exact argument will come up in the courts over this issue]

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 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.

Also, people get in trouble for giving legal advice, artificial unintelligence('s companies) should as well.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (7 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 6 points 1 month 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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