{"id":260804,"date":"2025-11-04T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:14:12","slug":"no-chatgpt-hasnt-added-a-ban-on-giving-legal-and-health-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260804\/","title":{"rendered":"No, ChatGPT hasn\u2019t added a ban on giving legal and health advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">OpenAI says ChatGPT\u2019s behavior \u201cremains unchanged\u201d after reports across social media falsely claimed that new updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI\u2019s head of health AI, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thekaransinghal\/status\/1985416057805496524\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes on X<\/a> that the claims are \u201cnot true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, but it will continue to be a great resource to help people understand legal and health information,\u201d Singhal says, replying to a now-deleted post from the betting platform Kalshi that had claimed \u201cJUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to Singhal, the inclusion of policies surrounding legal and medical advice \u201cis not a new change to our terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new policy update <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/usage-policies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on October 29th<\/a> has a list of things you can\u2019t use ChatGPT for, and one of them is \u201cprovision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">That remains similar to OpenAI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250902175341\/https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/usage-policies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous ChatGPT usage<\/a> policy, which said users shouldn\u2019t perform activities that \u201cmay significantly impair the safety, wellbeing, or rights of others,\u201d including \u201cproviding 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">OpenAI previously had three separate policies, including a \u201cuniversal\u201d one, as well as ones for ChatGPT and API usage. With the new update, the company has one unified list of rules that its changelog says \u201creflect a universal set of policies across OpenAI products and services,\u201d but the rules are still the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI says ChatGPT\u2019s behavior \u201cremains unchanged\u201d after reports across social media falsely claimed that new updates to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,44,278,61],"class_list":["post-260804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}