Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The line between medical advice and personal research is pretty freaking gray, so banning medical advice. Does that also ban talking to llms about anything that is medical adjacent?

  Does medical adjacent mean personal disabilities? Drug related interests? Pet health?

  …etc

  It’s a slippery slope and we don’t need to be sliding down it

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  • moroninahurry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People are so vicious over this tech they would rather have disabled poor people with cancer suffer and die under inadequate care than do anything about the inadequate care. Ban the tech, but let this all go on.

    If you are perfectly able and well, you can ignore all advice that isn’t perfect.

    The perspective they seem to lack is frightening. The empathy they refuse to engage is massive. This is able-ism.

    Tech companies are bad, tech will cure cancer.

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    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you may be falling into a false dichotomy. Not only is the choice being presented a bad one, it ignores real solutions to the root problem, leaving us to argue over the crappy “band-aid” solution to it.

      I believe that people needing health care should have no reason to ask a chat bot about their symptoms because they can ask a helpful doctor instead. The fact that they can’t do that is the problem, not their access or lack of it to the chat bot.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Would rather have disabled people with cancer suffer and die…”

      My guy, that’s not a lack of LLM access, it’s a completely fucked US healthcare system that forces people onto the internet because they can’t get what they need from the state, you goofy-ass weirdo.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Would rather have disabled people with cancer suffer and die…”

        chatbots are shit doctors.

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      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well yes of course but also restricting access to information doesn’t exactly help much either.

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• moroninahurry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Neither should Wikipedia or Google. So I guess by your logic nobody should search or learn about medical conditions on a computer.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You know damn well there’s an important difference related to the confidence of a bot that has been a key problem since this whole thing started.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess by your logic nobody should search or learn about medical conditions on a computer.

    How else would we know the TRUTH about 5G vaccines and invermectin? Or the cures of Apple Cider vinegar?

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