David GerardTIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test". i didn't know that before. in fact I still don't.
Charlie Stross@davidgerard I am pretty sure that OpenAI do not have a license to practice medicine and are not a (human) member of the BMA so by giving medical advice they (the humans responsible for the software) are potentially committing an imprisonable offense ...
Jer@cstross @davidgerard who will you imprison? The ceo? The programmers? The qa team?
One of the big draws of tech is the ability to turn human error (and malfeasance) into "computer error". And society has been trained to believe software errors aren't anyone's fault so there's no one to hold accountable
That needs to change. Companies need to be accountable for their "computer errors" - especially when they're baked into design and not actually errors
@Jer @davidgerard That's a broader corporate liability question. Personally I'd LIKE to see the C-suite and boards of corporations that kill people sentenced to serious prison time. (Lower level staff too, but only if it's found that they made decisions that led to deaths on their own initiative. The directors *are responsible for the company's actions*.)
Going further: the current privileged legal status of corporations is an obscenity and needs to be de-legitimized.
Bruno Girin@cstross @Jer @davidgerard
We already have exactly this for some regulations like PCI-DSS. It's funny how we can get that sort of things when it protects an industry like the credit card industry.
We already have exactly this for some regulations like PCI-DSS. It's funny how we can get that sort of things when it protects an industry like the credit card industry.