ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?

Post by DetectDefect » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #115

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Those are not great examples. Bubble gum puts the buyer in a worse dental health situation. Windows is a monopoly that controls the desktop market and the buyer would have been better off with a richer market with a variety of options. You could have said cigarettes. They provide the same pleasure benefits as gum with unhealthy outcomes for the buyer.

You are making the mistake of asserting that the buyer exactly shares your values. With Windows, I didn't assert that it was the value maximizing case, merely that it benefits both parties. Which it does, mostly likely to the advantage of the buyers.

Post by ffsm8 » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

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Do corporations use my google searches as data to hire me?

Do you have any proof they don't? Do you have any proof the "AI System" that they use to filter out candidates doesn't "accidentally" access data ? Are you willing to bet that Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, won't sell access to that information? Also, in some cases: they absolutely do. Try to get hired in Palantir and see how much they know about your browsing history. Anything related to national security or requi…

Post by atmosx » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

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I agree. LLMs cannot and should not replace professionals but there are huge gaps that can be filled by intro provided and the fact that you can dig deeper into any subject is huge. This is probably a field that MistralAI could use privacy and GDPR as leverage to build LLMs around that.

One of the big issues I have with LLMs that when you start a prompting session with an easy question it all goes great. It bring up points you might not have considered and appears very knowledgeable. Fact checking at this stage will show the LLM is invariably correct. Then you start "digging deeper" on a specific sub-topic, and this is where the risk of an incorrect response grows. But it is easy to continue with th…

Post by maxerickson » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

DetectDefect wrote: post #131

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You are making the mistake of asserting that the buyer exactly shares your values. With Windows, I didn't assert that it was the value maximizing case, merely that it benefits both parties. Which it does, mostly likely to the advantage of the buyers.

By the same logic, an inmate in prison is benefiting from incarceration because they are receiving food and housing. Obviously, the costs of being imprisoned is greater than any "enrichment" from it, and this is exactly the case with Windows and almost all technology.

Post by kjkjadksj » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

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Ostensibly, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to reduce the average family's premiums by $2,500 a year. When that didn't happen, the story changed to that number being how much more premiums would have risen. Insurance premiums have only gone up as far as I can remember, though there's a ton of variables at play here. Inflation is an obvious one, plus continual introduction of more and more costly treatments- biol…

The individual mandate part of the ACA was the part designed to reduce premiums. You need healthy participants in any health insurance scheme to subsidize unhealthy people. That was eliminated by a Republican bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.