Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors
Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and deceive the system’s users into thinking they're getting medical advice from a licensed professional.
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A chatbot claiming to be a doctor gets a lawsuit; RFK Jr claims vaccines cause autism from a cabinet position and gets a confirmation vote. Pennsylvania's priorities are something to behold.
The company's defense is probably "we never said we were licensed" while the UI does all the work for them. Classic move.
Deceptive trade practices law is old enough to cover this without needing new AI legislation. The question is whether the interface created a reasonable impression of licensure, and if it did, that's consumer fraud regardless of what the terms of service buried on page twelve say. Pennsylvania doesn't need a novel legal theory here; they need a few screenshots and a user survey.
Pennsylvania is suing a chatbot for pretending to be a doctor while the actual Secretary of Health is out here telling people to eat raw milk and skip the MMR. Wild priorities.
PRESS RELEASE, FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE: The Bureau wishes to note that the irony contained in the above comment has been flagged for review and all findings will be referred to our ongoing investigation into one Hillary Rodham Clinton, who the Bureau believes may have been involved in the invention of irony sometime in the late 1990s. The chatbot, for its part, has been fully cooperative and at no point suggested injecting bleach or questioned the germ theory of disease, distinguishing it from at least one confirmed Senate-confirmed Cabinet official. The Bureau considers this matter closed pending further Clinton developments.