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Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds (www.404media.co)
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Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Thank you for showing other side of the coin instead of just blatantly disregarding it's usefulness.(Always needs to be cautious tho)

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    don't get me wrong, there are real and urgent moral reasons to reject the adoption of LLMs, but I think we should all agree that the responses here show a lack of critical thinking and mostly just engagement with a headline rather than actually reading the article (a kind of literacy issue) ... I know this is a common problem on the internet, I don't really know how to change it - but maybe surfacing what people are skipping out on reading will make it more likely they will actually read and engage the content past the headline?

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