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How is it all that different from writing a self-help book though, in a legal sense? Why is there any bigger liability and ethical issue? There are millions of such books and articles published, full of all sorts of nonsense. A mentally unstable person might follow one and experience a bad outcome. No reason to stop releasing books though. A simple disclaimer seems to suffice. I understand that the experience of an LLM is not the same thing as reading a book, but it is in a sense just indexing and summarizing many texts in an interactive way. Why do you think it would be treated differently under the law, are there specific laws that apply to LLMs but not to books?
An easy difference is the data: you hardly give any personal data when buying a book, but you would have to expose your deepest secrets to this system. If the system is trained on interactions with patients, it may even leak this data through responses in the future.