> Why jail time for lawyers who use Chat-GPT, but not programmers? Are we that unimportant compared to the actual useful members of society, whose work actually has to be held to standards?

Programmers generally don't need a degree or license to work. Anyone can become a programmer after a few weeks of work. There are no exams to pass unlike doctors or lawyers.

All the more reason to have insanely harsh punishments!

In absence of mitigations like laws and exams, it makes more important to use criminal and civil law to punish bad programmers.

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