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OpenAI updates terms to forbid usage for medical and legal advice

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26 points piskov | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 23:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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geor9e ◴[01 Nov 25 01:47 UTC] No.45778609[source]▶
HN Headline is categorically false.

"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, they didn't add any handrails, filters, or blocks to the software. This is just boilerplate "consult your doctor too!" to cover their ass.

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unyttigfjelltol ◴[01 Nov 25 01:52 UTC] No.45778632[source]▶
Doesn’t prohibit brainstorming what to ask your doctor, or which professional consultation to prioritize.

Does prohibit, for illustration, LLM-powered surgical device.

Everything else is “gray area”?

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SoftTalker ◴[01 Nov 25 02:01 UTC] No.45778673[source]▶
> brainstorming what to ask your doctor

Generally a bad idea. If you want to be a doctor, go to medical school.

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1. OutOfHere ◴[01 Nov 25 03:15 UTC] No.45778967[source]▶
The bad idea is to live and die in ignorance. The good idea is to use GPT to find ideas and references that one can then verify. If it were up to the medical establishment, they would block the public from accessing medical research altogether, and they already do this by paywalling much research.