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This sounds it might be like a hallucination. I've never heard of any "Domestic Bribery Act" and I'm unable to find one in cursory online searching. (In 18 USC there are prohibitions on bribing public officials, but that doesn't seem relevant here.)

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ChatGPT is not a good place to get legal advice. Regardless, there are a variety of ways that you can get boned for accepting bribes in your capacity as an employee. In the US, the "honest services" laws have been weakened by Supreme Court action, but there are other paths to criminal prosecution.

The advice of "STFU and get the comment removed" is spot on.

Fascinating, i think you are correct. This website at least suggests that there are some other laws regarding domestic bribes: https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/anti-corruption/anti-co...

But "Domestic Bribery Act" seems to be a hallucination. I have so far only encountered fake sources or links that don't exist, this kind of hallucination is new and unexpected.

Thanks for making me aware of this, quite scary how utterly convincing chatGPT was in this instance.

Also FWIW, I'm in the UK and was likely dealing with a UK subsidiary of Adobe, so the laws would likely be different anyway.

The SEC effectively has worldwide jurisdiction, for something that relates to a USA-listed company. The tip submission form seems relatively lightweight. https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/submit-a-tip

The UK Bribery Act is, on paper, very strong and broad in application. Unfortunately prosecutions under it are exceptionally rare.

> this kind of hallucination is new and unexpected

I don’t think it’s new or unexpected at all. Remember the lawyers who used ChatGPT and it ended up fabricating case law?

ChatGPT is interesting and all but it’s seriously untrustworthy.

ChatGPT is trained to sound convincing, not to be correct.

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