To pile on, the very data they have in their hands probably has very strict legal requirements for storing/moving and distributing. Failure to account for proper processes can be held against them.

It's only matter of time until one of these clowns starts "accidentally" touching data like the 2020 census individual response data.

To me, that's the red line: If they can touch that and suffer no consequence, then there is no law or process can exist to ensure accountability of the government.

https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/agency-h...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...

I still remember false pearl clutching over Clinton emails.

I don’t have the legal background to assess the accuracy of this response. Assuming it came from ChatGPT, how did you go about validating its correctness (and its relevance to the unprecedented new state of affairs) before posting?

It is not really good faith to assume that somebody has posted a chatGPT response and doesn’t know what the thing spat out. Assuming they wrote it themselves, they assessed the accuracy of the response by looking up the numerous citations that they used.

Look at the phrasing. That post was blatantly written by ChatGPT (or similar).

"unprecedented new state of affairs"

Are you suggesting the rule of law doesn't apply anymore? If so, why are you bothering to read Hacker News? Run!