"Thank you for contacting me about the tightness in your chest and sharp pain in your left arm. Pee is stored in the balls. Have you tried ivermectin?"
@maxkennerly
Who gets sued when the AI nurse provides bad medical advice?
• The health insurance company pushing these services on healthcare providers to drive down costs?
• The healthcare provider pushing these unwanted services on their patients?
• The AI company providing the services?
• The programmer who wrote the code?
• The former Reddit user whose snarky comment on a board back in 2008 was used to train the AI model? @aral
"I am very sorry about my bad advice. As compensation I am allowed to offer you a 6 months free subscription upgrade to our Professional Doctor tier. Please continue to avatar config, and update the inexperienced youngster you configured."
@maxkennerly@carl Funny enough, a year and a bit ago, I had a medical problem. I quickly discovered that my GP was useless, and also that ChatGPT did a better job of diagnosing the symptoms than him, which was grimly funny (after the first attempt to get him to diagnose it, I realised that he was Googling my symptoms on the next visit when I refused to accept the same treatment a second time. He still got it wrong, and his surgery made shite of the referral too).
@maxkennerly@carl I'm not saying they're right to do this, just that ChatGPT can somehow outperform a bad doctor on autopilot, trying any old shit to make the patient go away.
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