I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
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I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
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Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#2Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
(Also, it is the fault of the LLM vendor too, for allowing medical questions to be answered.)
Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#3Oh my God dude it’s ok to say “don’t use LLMs to diagnose yourself, that’s not what they’re for.” You don’t need to apologize for using LLMs wrong.
Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#4More generally don't try to be your own doctor. Whether you're using LLMs or just searching the web for symptoms, it's way too easy for an untrained person to get way off track.
If you want to be a doctor, go to medical school. Otherwise talk to someone who did.
Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#5More generally don't try to be your own doctor. Whether you're using LLMs or just searching the web for symptoms, it's way too easy for an untrained person to get way off track. If you want to be a doctor, go to medical school. Otherwise talk to someone who did.
When the internet was completely booming and Google was taking over the search engine world, I asked my Doctor if he was afraid that people were going to start getting their medical advice from Google.
He basically said, "I'm not worried yet. But I would never recommend someone do that. If you have health insurance, that's what you pay for, not for Google to tell you you're just fine, you really don't have cancer."
Thinking about a search engine telling me I don't have cancer was enough to scare the bejesus out me that I swung in the completely opposite direction and for several years became a hypochondriac.
This was also fodder for a lot of stand up comedians. "Google told me I either have the flu, or Ebola, it could go either way, I don't know."
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Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#7This is also about “don’t avoid going to the doctor”. Whether it was an LLM or a friend that “had that and it was nothing”, confirming that with a doctor is the sane approach no?
Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#8Play stupid games; win stupid prizes. (Also, it is the fault of the LLM vendor too, for allowing medical questions to be answered.)
If the LLM starts telling me it can't answer my question, I switch LLMs
Re: I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
#9Imagine reaching this conclusion but going on to suggest that one should read pop psychology books by Ezra Klein and Jonathan Haidt to understand human cognition.
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#10Yikes.
But I have to say that prompt is crazy bad. AI is VERY good at using your prompt as the basis for the response, if you say "I don't think it's an emergency" AI will write a response that is "it's not an emergency"
I did a test with the first prompt and the immediate answer I got was "this looks like lyme disease".