AI apocalyptic hegemony Expectations : I, Robot Reality: Human extinction after ChatGPT kills everyone with halucinated medical advice, and lives alone..
I mean, that's Darwin in action, right?
ChatGPT Health
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#362My uncle had an issue with his balance and slurred speech. Doctors claimed dementia and sent him home. It kept becoming worse and worse. Then one day I entered the symptoms in ChatGPT (or was it Gemini?) and asked it for the top 3 hypotheses. The first one was related to dementia. The second was something else (I forget the long name). I took all 3 to his primary care doc who had kept ignoring the problem, and asked…
General doctors aren't trained for problem solving, they're trained for memorization. The doctors that are good at problem solving aren't general doctors.
That's a sweeping generalization unsupported by facts.
In reality you'll find the vast majority of GPs are highly intelligent and quite good at problem solving.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say their training is so intensive and expansive that laypeople who make such comments are profoundly lacking in awareness on the topic.
Physicians are still human, so like anything there's of course bad ones, specialists included. There's also healthcare systems with various degrees of dysfunction and incentives that don't necessarily align with the patient.
None of that means GPs are somehow less competent at solving problems; not only is it an insult but it's ridiculous on the face of it.
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I wouldn't be surprised it's because people self diagnose and talk about their """adhd""" all the time on reddit &co. where chatgpt was trained a lot.
Do you think the majority of those people are lying or do you think it's possible that our pursuit of algorithmic consumption is actually rewiring our neural pathways into something that looks/behaves more like ADHD? Personally, I'm on the fence. I suspect that I've always had a bit of that, but anecdotally, it does seem to have gotten worse in the past decade, but perhaps it's just a symptom of old age (31 hehehe).
I have what you would call metric shittons of ADHD. Medically diagnosed. Was kicked outta university for failing grades and all. Pills saved me. If you think you have it, the best thing you can do for yourself is at least get a diagnosis done. In b4 people come in and chime it can be faked. Yes the symptoms can be faked. But why would you if you really want to know what is wrong with you if any? (Hoping you aren't a TikTok content creator lurking here)
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Disable memories so each chat is independent. If you want chats to shared info, then use a project.
Unfortunately I don't think that's a good solution. Memories are an excellent feature and you see them on.... most similar services now. Yes, projects have their uses. But as an example - I do python across many projects and non-projects alike. I don't want to want to need to tell ChatGPT exactly how I like my python each and everytime, or with each project. If it was just one or two items like that, fine, I can upda…
This idea that it is so much more better for OpenAI to have all this information about because it can make some suggestions seem ludicrous. How has humanity survived thus far without this. This seems like you just need more connections with real people.
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Thanks for sharing. I struggled with long-term undiagnosed issues for so long. It took me 15 years of trying with doctors until one did a colonoscopy and found an H.Pylori infection in 2018. Prescribed the right kind of antibiotics and changed my life. In hindsight, my symptoms matched many of the infection's. No doctor figured it out. So many doctors never bothered to conduct any tests. Many said it's in my head. So…
I thought Hy.Pylori was diagnosed from a stool sample which in my experience is the first thing you’re asked for if you have any gastric issues. Was it only possible to find via the colonoscopy in your case or did the doctors never do a stool test?
You could do a breath test for h pylori. The colonoscopy was done as a general check by a specialist doctor. So the doctor wasn’t sure but a colonoscopy covered h pylori check.
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#366Here’s something: my chatGPT quietly assumed I had ADHD for around 9 months, up until October 2025. I don’t suffer from ADHD. I only found out through an answer that began “As you have ADHD..” I had it stop right there, and asked it to tell me exactly where it got this information; the date, the title of the chat, the exact moment it took this data on as an attribute of mine. It was unable to specify any of it, aside…
This actually highlights a big privacy problem with health AI. Say I’m interested in some condition and want to know more about it so I ask a chatbot about it. It decides “asking for a friend” means I actually have that condition and then silent passes that information on data brokers. Once it’s in the broker network it’s truth. We lack the proper infrastructure for to control our own personal data. Hell, I bet there…
What's the difference between Googling diseases/symptoms and asking ChatGPT?
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#367Re: ChatGPT Health
#368Here’s something: my chatGPT quietly assumed I had ADHD for around 9 months, up until October 2025. I don’t suffer from ADHD. I only found out through an answer that began “As you have ADHD..” I had it stop right there, and asked it to tell me exactly where it got this information; the date, the title of the chat, the exact moment it took this data on as an attribute of mine. It was unable to specify any of it, aside…
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I think you are definitely right. People need to learn to be more resilient. People are in such a hurry to give over their lives to Sam Altman (cue the "decentralizers and democratizers").
Re: ChatGPT Health
#369My uncle had an issue with his balance and slurred speech. Doctors claimed dementia and sent him home. It kept becoming worse and worse. Then one day I entered the symptoms in ChatGPT (or was it Gemini?) and asked it for the top 3 hypotheses. The first one was related to dementia. The second was something else (I forget the long name). I took all 3 to his primary care doc who had kept ignoring the problem, and asked…
General doctors aren't trained for problem solving, they're trained for memorization. The doctors that are good at problem solving aren't general doctors.
I can attest to this from personal experience.
After undergoing stomach surgery 8 years ago I started experiencing completely debilitating stomach aches. I had many appointments with my GP and a specialist leading to endoscopies, colonoscopies, CAT scans, and MRI scans all to no avail and they just kept prescribing more and more anti-acids and stronger painkillers.
It was after seven years of this that I paid for a private food allergy test to find that I am allergic to Soya protein. Once I stopped eating anything with Soya in it the symptoms almost completely vanished.
At my next GP appointment I asked why no-one had suggested it could be an allergic reaction only to be told that it is not one of the things they check for or even suggest. My faith in the medical community took a bit of a knock that day.
On a related note, I never knew just how many foods contain Soya flour that you wouldn't expect until I started checking.
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#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
General doctors aren't trained for problem solving, they're trained for memorization. The doctors that are good at problem solving aren't general doctors.
I can attest to this from personal experience. After undergoing stomach surgery 8 years ago I started experiencing completely debilitating stomach aches. I had many appointments with my GP and a specialist leading to endoscopies, colonoscopies, CAT scans, and MRI scans all to no avail and they just kept prescribing more and more anti-acids and stronger painkillers. It was after seven years of this that I paid for a p…
Soy is in just about everything it is a staple food. You're unlucky, really. You're in good company though, it is one in three hundred or so.