• geneva_convenience
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    9 hours ago

    My dude you don’t need to believe all medical advice it gives. Just use it to get a feel in the right direction and then check whether the symptoms match. It will often suggest multiple options and rate them by likelyhood.

    I do not think you understand how much training these LLM’s have on medical material. They can accurately diagnose almost any common disease it is not like WebMD always suggesting you have stage 5 cancer.

    Seriously try it once before going full anti AI mode.

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      9 hours ago

      You quite literally cannot trust them, their produced information entropy is too high. I understand how much training they have on medical text, you dont understand how little that means. These models are fundamentally incapable of assessing the truth of a statement, you are using something you dont even understand to give you advice about something it cannot reliably give and lack the expertise needed to understand how accurate they actually are at any given answer, on a topic that directly influences your actual physical wellbeing!

      “just try it bro it’s good i promise” you should actually prompt an llm about a topic you know about in detail. the amount of errors are rampant, then apply that same inaccuracy to topics you know nothing about.

      my next recommendation is that since you are not a healthcare professional, do not give medical advice like “use llm” as you personally clearly cannot verify the accuracy of llm for this role.

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        6 hours ago

        If you want to visit a Doctor for every minor thing feel welcome. So far LLM’s have correctly predicted every health issue I have had and provided better and more accurate information than the doctor visit afterwards.

        This does not mean they are infaillible. But you can easily check what they suggest and see whether the symptoms match other websites and the doctors description.