Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice
melfie@lemy.lol 1 week ago
In the US especially, medical professionals are overworked and simply don’t have the time and energy properly diagnose. If you have a more complex, chronic issue, there’s a good chance you’ll be waiting months at a time to see various specialists who are only going to spend about 10 distracted minutes thinking about your case and might not even have any useful insights, or they might misdiagnose you and make your condition worse. You basically have to do your own research and show them studies. If you’re a person of color or a woman, etc., there’s a good chance you won’t even be taken seriously. In an ideal world, it would work like it does on TV, but in the real world, it’s all about maximizing profits and the patients be damned. Sure, LLMs are unreliable, but they do at least provide ideas to research.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That’s not why people are using ChatBots, they are using Chatbots because they can’t afford healthcare.
and before we get out the tiny violins for MDs, they gatekeep the system to keep their salaries high.
melfie@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Even if they do spend their limited resources on healthcare, there’s a good chance it’s going to be a waste of money.
A lot of MDs are pretty useless, and that’s a big part of the problem. Just because someone can memorize and regurgitate information well, that doesn’t mean they’re going to be effective at their job. It’s often necessary to shop around to find someone who doesn’t suck, which is especially difficult for anyone who can’t afford it.