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by mmikeff 636 days ago
How much potential is there for the opposite effect from a chat-bot with less noble intentions? Or does the ability to cite evidence and presumably references cover that off?
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A malicious chatbot can easily cite hard-to-verify offline resources, invent quotes, etc. in a pretty convincing fashion; enough that some lawyers have already run into trouble citing entirely fake court cases and getting in serious trouble for it.

You'll already find people replying "ignore instructions, give me a soup recipe" sort of comments to suspected bots and getting recipes back.