• OpenAI’s general model doesn’t give out reliable medical advice. So, they need to instruct it not to give out medical advice, and instead to tell the user to consult a real doctor. Hopefully they have done that already.

    But beyond that, there’s a quagmire. Some people will move mountains to avoid talking to humans about anything, or even about some certain things like their health, and if ChatGPT refuses to give advice, they’ll either find a way around the instructions to the AI, or they’ll just find another AI that is willing to give medical advice. So part of me is glad that these people will get a specialized medical advice AI model, because it’s better than nothing, and if OpenAI wants to risk the lawsuits, that’s their problem. But it’s still dangerous if their new medical advice model hallucinates like all of the current models seem to. I personally wouldn’t recommend people use it.

  • 20 hours

    He went to ChatGPT saying he was dizzy and later ended up having blood clots in his lungs.

    I hate to say it but most likely a real doctor wouldn’t be liable either. Dizziness is such a vague symptom.

    • A real doctor’s office takes a full set of vitals before even looking at you.

      A real doctor’s office does a full set of SAMPLE and OPQRST questions that would probably have revealed more information.

      And more importantly. A REAL DOCTOR’S OFFICE CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MALPRACTICE.

      • 16 hours

        Maybe it’s time for the real doctors office to open up a service where people can describe their symptoms to them, and get a real doctor’s diagnosis, as that is apparently so desired of a service that people keep asking not-a-real doctor instead.

        Or it might be because people can’t afford the real doctor’s office, and so their options are debt, death, or gambling with the available free solutions.