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

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

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

Is the U.S. House of Representatives [or any equivalent publisher of the law] responsible for you reading the text of a law itself and then taking that as legal advice?

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

That's a totally irrelevant comparison. There is no equivalent publisher of the law to the US House of reps. Nothing the Wikipedia publishes has legal bearing; Everything the house of Reps publish does have legal bearing.

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 1 point 6 months ago

Your objection does nothing to address the issue you raised. Where is the line drawn between "information" and "legal advice?"

Wikipedia and the lawmakers themselves present us with static information that is not specific to us personally or to any particular situation we may find ourselves in, and which generally does not include specific recommendations. I think most people would agree that's just information, not advice.

If an LLM can be coaxed into saying things like "you should," advocating specific courses of action for your circumstances, is that legal advice? I think many of us would agree that would be unlicesenced legal advice.

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