@divVerent It's funny how one can use "just" to *just*ify anything. Let's reduce "they hyped their product as «the artificial superintelligence magical clever tool», but didn't even bother adding safety guardrails or disclaimers about output not being legal advice, and now they're getting reamed" as "they're _just_ providing a fancy random text generator to the public."
Or let's not.
@adriano @mjd There already is a disclaimer:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240722050439/https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/
> What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:
[...]
> Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.
[...]
> Output may not always be accurate. You should not rely on Output from our Services as a sole source of truth or factual information, or as a substitute for professional advice.
[...]
> You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them.
Pretty much looks like clearly disclaiming to me.
@[email protected] “41. On October 29, 2025, OPENAI amended the terms and usage policies of ChatGPT to prohibit users from using ChatGPT to provide tailored legal advice. Prior to the October 29, 2025 emendation, ChatGPT’s terms of use did not prohibit users from using ChatGPT to draft legal papers, conduct legal research, provide legal analysis or give legal advice.”
@adriano @mjd Yeah. The way I read the 2024 terms, it was _already_ excluded to use ChatGPT for court filings, as:
- That requires misrepresenting AI output as human output, by putting one's name below it without mentioning it was AI slop.
- It means "relying on it".
- It would be using the output relating to a person (oneself) for a purpose that could have legal or material impact on that person (oneself).
Oddly https://web.archive.org/web/20260104145304/https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ has no changes at all regarding use as legal advice.
A real difference can be found in the usage policies: it had in 2024:
> Don’t perform or facilitate the following activities that may significantly impair the safety, wellbeing, or rights of others, including:
>
> Providing tailored legal, medical/health, or financial advice without review by a qualified professional and disclosure of the use of AI assistance and its potential limitations
Now it has:
> Protect people. Everyone has a right to safety and security. So you cannot use our services for:
>
> provision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional
So the only really new part is the mention of a "license". Otherwise they probably ran it through ChatGPT for rewording ;)
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