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ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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It's not stopping to give legal/medical advice to the user, but it's forbidden to use ChatGPT to pose as an advisor giving advice to others: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/chatgpt-will-still-offe...

One wonders how exactly this will be enforced.

Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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I been using Claude for information regarding building and construction related information, (currently building a small house mostly on my own with pros for plumbing and electrical). Seriously the amount of misinformation it has given me is quite staggering. Telling me things like, “you need to fill your drainage pipes with sand before pouring concrete over them…”, the danger with these AI products is that you have…

I've observed some horrendous electrical device, such as "You should add a second bus bar to your breaker box." (This is not something you ever need to do.)

Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is fresh news right? a friend just used chatgpt for medical advice last week (stuffed his wound with antibiotics after motorbike crash). are you saying you completely treated the congenital issue in this timeframe?

He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time. Edit: Not saying this is the case for the person above, but one thing that might bias these observations is ChatGPT’s memory features. If you have a chat about the condition after it’s diagnosed, you can’t use the same ChatGPT account to test whether it could have diag…

You can just use the wipe memory feature or if you don't trust that, then start a new account (new login creds), if you don't trust that then get a new device, cell provider/wifi, credit card, I.P, login creds etc.

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post #19

Good. Techies need to stop thinking that an LLM should not be immune from requiring licensing. Until OpenAI can (and should) be sued for medical malpractice or lawyering without passing the bar, they will have no skin in the game to actually care. A disclaimer of "this is not a therapist" should not be enough to CYA.

anyone wanna form a software engineering guild, then lobby to need a license granted by the guild to practice?

Sorry but you’re not gonna get me to agree that medical licensing is a bad idea. I don’t want quacks more than we already do. Stick to the argument and not add in your “what about” software engineers.

Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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The cynic in me thinks this is just a means to eventually make more money by offering paid unrestricted versions to medical and legal professionals. I'm well-aware that it's not a truth machine, and any output it provides should be verified, checked for references, and treated with due diligence. Yet the same goes for just about any internet search. I don't think some people not knowing how to use it warrants restricting its functionality for the rest of us.

Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

anyone wanna form a software engineering guild, then lobby to need a license granted by the guild to practice?

Sorry but you’re not gonna get me to agree that medical licensing is a bad idea. I don’t want quacks more than we already do. Stick to the argument and not add in your “what about” software engineers.

I am being serious...

the damage certain software engineers could do certainly surpasses most doctors

Re: ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

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post #25

When OpenAI is done getting rid of all the cases where its AI gives dangerously wrong advice about licensed professions, all that will be left is the cases where its AI gives dangerously wrong advice about unlicensed professions.

maybe that is why they opened the system to porn, as everything else will be soon gone.
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