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I don't know if it's fake, but I would not bet on it. There is imho a large crisis of trust in all types of institutions, professions etc. Being a doctor has be
by locallost 3y ago
I don't know if it's fake, but I would not bet on it. There is imho a large crisis of trust in all types of institutions, professions etc. Being a doctor has been demystified to an extent, for various reasons (e.g. the realization I've heard from some people that doctors didn't really know what was wrong and they just went from one guess to another, large amount of information being available giving people the wrong impression they know more than they do etc. etc.). It's also my personal explanation for the rise in alternative medicine, homeopathy, ivermectin treatments for covid, but also more broadly various forms of conspiracy theories. It's not far fetched that some people would trust "AI" more than a doctor who they don't trust or respect at all anymore.
So fake or not, it definitely hits a nerve as something that is possible. On a tangent, I think this is actually quite interesting. If I was a sociologist, I would be interested in the root cause of this as much as a scientist or an engineer is interested in a bridge falling down. But I mostly see lamenting that the world has gone crazy.