E(accident due to going faster) vs E(worse outcome due to waiting)
Your argument only makes sense if the only possible bad thing is a car accident -- to make my point clearer, would you take a 1% chance of losing 100$ to avoid a 50% chance of losing 10$?
Depends how much money you have, but it can be a perfectly rational decision.
It seems to me that @tekne is comparing the LLM to a reference source. I took them to be pointing out that unlicensed-practice laws don’t crack down on textbooks, or reading the law for yourself (or even going jailhouse-lawyer or trying to defend yourself in court).
Rather, that the laws aim to keep the professional title commercially reliable, so that it indicates to the public that the person using it has proven some minimum level of expertise.
So the analysis would turn on whether a reasonable person would confuse ChatGPT for a practicing lawyer, or doctor, or whatever—not whether it communicated legal or medical facts.
Now, to my mind, the facts are the least interesting part of those professions—I pay those professionals precisely for their nuance and judgment and experience beyond the bare facts of a situation. And I think the ChatGPTs of the world do embellish their responses with the kind of confidence and tone that implies nuance/judgment/experience they don’t have.
But that isn't the standard. You said it yourself "whether a reasonable person would confuse ChatGPT for a practicing lawyer, or doctor"
So as long as people don't think that there is a licensed lawyer or doctor on the other end typing out those responses, and they don't, this should be legal.
Would they risk a taxi ride if they knew that Uber failed to properly background check a driver, who later kidnapped and raped one of his passengers, and Uber's response was to hire private investigators to dig up personal information on the victim in an attempt to discredit her? [1]
I mean -- my (completely non-technical) mother, after a few hours of my guidance, has started vibe-coding apps and websites for her local community organizations. And, like -- it works.
But suppose you have egalitarian nation N -- what stops the billionaire from non-egalitarian nation B from influencing your politicians? Especially if nation N is small and nation B is large.
Moreover -- why would low-level elites (think: entrepreneurs, small business owners, etc.) stay in nation N if it was more profitable to do business in nation B -- recall this is precisely the type of person that is often most mobile and internationalized.
Bit of a nerd-snipe, but I wonder about the idea of sortition of a set of candidates -- say 200 -- out of a larger voting pool, and then voting for one of the randomly selected candidates.
Then you get "at least approx. top 1%" -- but it's still not necessarily an entrenched elite.
The thing is that one software is easy to crack and copy, so it is cheap...but a lot of softwares to work together is not, so that's why we have SaaS and PaaS today.
Your argument only makes sense if the only possible bad thing is a car accident -- to make my point clearer, would you take a 1% chance of losing 100$ to avoid a 50% chance of losing 10$?
Depends how much money you have, but it can be a perfectly rational decision.
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