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Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by 4cidBurn on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:48PM (#45827778)
You can thank the normal people for this. AI was supposed to be a tool, not some unlicensed mashup of WebMD and Dr. Phil. Now everyone is asking a chatbot if their headache is a tumor or if their marriage is over. Anyone who knows tech knows it is just scraped data, mostly wrong, but the public treats it like a genius trapped in a web server. OpenAI had to shut down medical and legal advice because adults cannot question it or verify the information. This is not really an AI problem. This is a society problem. We need to teach kids how to question things instead of just accepting them so they do not grow into these problematic adults down the line. Ridiculous.
Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by _puk on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:02PM (#45827965)
This is not shutting anything down other than businesses using ChatGPT to give medical advice [0].

Users can still ask questions, get answers, but the terms have been made clearer around reuse of that response (you cannot claim that it is medical advice).

I imagine that a startup that specialises in "medical advice" infers an even greater level of trust than simply asking ChatGPT, especially to "the normal people".

0: https://lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt-can-still-give-legal-and...

Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by ankit219 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:20PM (#45828181)
The thing is that if you are giving professional advice in US - legal, financial, medical - the other party can sue you for wrong or misleading advice. In that scenario, this leaves Openai exposed to a lawsuit, and this change seemingly eliminates that.
Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by ares623 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:52PM (#45829673)
Would be amazing if they prefix everything with “this is not financial advice. Do your own research. “
Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by _puk on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @05:10PM (#45828781)
Yeah, that clearly makes sense from OpenAI's perspective.