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> Isn't software engineering "engineering" too?

No.

FTA:>> Important nuance: "engineering" here means New York Education Law Article 145 professions (professional engineering, land surveying, and geology), not software engineering.

What the law is basically saying is that in fields where it would by a crime for a random human to give any substantive response, information, or advice chatbots also should not do so. Software engineering is not one of those fields.

The law does not make it a crime for a chatbot to do so, but if it does and the person it advises suffers damages it makes it so the injured person can sue the chatbot operator for those damages (and for attorney fees if the chatbot operator willfully allowed the chatbot to give such advice).