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I argued with someone (online) about a ChatGPT diagnosis recently. They have back pain and they've had an MRI but the scans (shared online) don't show any signi

I argued with someone (online) about a ChatGPT diagnosis recently. They have back pain and they've had an MRI but the scans (shared online) don't show any significate disk bulging and no herniations. They put their symptoms into ChatGPT and got a possible diagnosis of a disk herniation along with a treatment of a microdiscectomy. Despite the fact that a couple doctors have told them they don't need surgery they are convinced that they do. I understand that they are desperate for a solution to their pain but they are now doctor shopping until they can find someone willing to perform a procedure that ChatGPT suggested. People are already being misled by these systems.

Waterluvian 4y ago
You said it: they’re desperate. People do considerably less rational things in a desperate attempt to make pain go away.
recursive_loops 4y ago
I've recently been using ChatGPT to learn about Linux networking stuff, including most recently how to setup a bridge connection for KVM that behaves the same as virtualbox's. Given how catastrophically wrong (confidently wrong at that) ChatGPT has been, I cannot even imagine the frustration that will be for doctors from people who don't understand how LLMs work and think they are "thinking."