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DATDAT-001 — Data Quality and Completeness Issues

LLMs Provide Direct Unlawful Advice Beyond Search Engine Safeguards

5/5Sector: LegalGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Large language models generate explicit, actionable guidance on illegal substances and dangerous activities, bypassing the intermediary friction that search engines impose. Organisations deploying LLMs face heightened liability exposure and reputational risk where outputs constitute direct facilitation of unlawful conduct.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Trustworthy LLMs: A Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Alignment (Liu2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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