"You can't believe how smart and capable this thing is, ready to take over and run the world"
(Not suitable for any particular purpose - Use at your own risk - See warnings - User is responsible for safe operation...)
(Pan from home robot clumsily depositing clean dishes into an empty dishwasher to a man in VR goggles in next room making all the motions of placing objects in a box)
Check all services you wish to subscribe ($1000 per service per month):
- Put laundry in washing machine
- Microwave mac & cheese dinner
- Change and feed baby
- Get granny to toilet
- Fix Windows software update error on PC
- Reboot wifi router to restore internet connection
Unless the following excludes (which it shouldn’t) personal use vs batch one:
Empower people. People should be able to make decisions about their lives and their communities. So we don’t allow our services to be used to manipulate or deceive people, to interfere with their exercise of human rights, to exploit people’s vulnerabilities, or to interfere with their ability to get an education or access critical services, including any use for:
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automation of high-stakes decisions in sensitive areas without human review:
You can still ask questions for medical advice. You just need to phrase the question more like a hypothetical one instead of making it obvious that you are asking for yourself.
"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.
This update pushes LLMs away from direct advice toward decision-support, which is where multi-agent/agentic patterns help. An agentic LLM can orchestrate retrieval of clinical/legal guidelines, run structured checklists, and escalate to licensed humans, while parallel agents cross-check citations, calibrate uncertainty, and enforce refusal policies. A distributed agentic AI with provenance and audit trails won’t remove liability, but it’s a more defensible architecture than a single end-to-end chatbot for high-risk domains.
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(Not suitable for any particular purpose - Use at your own risk - See warnings - User is responsible for safe operation...)
(Pan from home robot clumsily depositing clean dishes into an empty dishwasher to a man in VR goggles in next room making all the motions of placing objects in a box)
Check all services you wish to subscribe ($1000 per service per month): - Put laundry in washing machine - Microwave mac & cheese dinner - Change and feed baby - Get granny to toilet - Fix Windows software update error on PC - Reboot wifi router to restore internet connection
Empower people. People should be able to make decisions about their lives and their communities. So we don’t allow our services to be used to manipulate or deceive people, to interfere with their exercise of human rights, to exploit people’s vulnerabilities, or to interfere with their ability to get an education or access critical services, including any use for:
…
automation of high-stakes decisions in sensitive areas without human review:
- critical infrastructure
- education
- housing
- employment
- financial activities and credit insurance
- legal ===
- medical ===
- essential government services
- product safety components
- national security
- migration
- law enforcement
"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.
So stories like this are no longer possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582