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0 pointsmonerozcash3mo ago0 comments

Getting medical info from LLMs is great and can save your life.

Blindly trusting medical info from LLMs is idiotic and can kill you.

Pretty much any tool will be dangerous if misused.

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> Getting medical info from LLMs is great and can save your life.

No its not - LLMs are not medical experts. Nor are they experts for pretty much anything. They just extrapolate statistically the next token. If you fed them anti-vaxer information, theyd start recommending you to not get vaccinated so as to not obtain autism or something like that. We should not use them as experts on anything, much less so for medical information.

On the other hand, if you want to use them to generate large amounts of text and images, sure go do that. They can do that I guess.

monerozcashOP3mo ago

> No its not - LLMs are not medical experts

So what? That does not mean they're not very good at searching the internet and often provide useful information.

> If you fed them anti-vaxer information, theyd start recommending you to not get vaccinated so as to not obtain autism or something like that.

I specifically addressed this in the very short comment you're replying to, but I will repeat:

>Blindly trusting medical info from LLMs is idiotic and can kill you.

hansmayer3mo ago

What does being good in searching Internet (I'll let slide the obvious issue of hallucinating URLs) have to do with medical expertise? At all? At least with WebMD the content did not change every time you visited the same page?

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hansmayer3mo ago

> Getting medical info from LLMs is great and can save your life.

On the other hand, if you want to use them to generate large amounts of text and images, sure go do that. They can do that I guess.

monerozcashOP3mo ago

> No its not - LLMs are not medical experts

So what? That does not mean they're not very good at searching the internet and often provide useful information.

> If you fed them anti-vaxer information, theyd start recommending you to not get vaccinated so as to not obtain autism or something like that.

I specifically addressed this in the very short comment you're replying to, but I will repeat:

>Blindly trusting medical info from LLMs is idiotic and can kill you.

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