TIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test".
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@davidgerard I know that alternative medicine has a body count; I’ve seen it in the flesh. I know what some of the horseshit on the Internet can do if you’re very desperate or very trusting.
the LLM lowers the trust barrier because the crank information is no longer crank flavored, but it’s still dangerous as fuck to follow the advice.
I keep seeing LLMs be presented as better than nothing and that’s wrong. I wish the people who needed help could get it, but the LLM is worse than nothing.
@davidgerard LLMs get alternative medicine patients to the “I don’t care what you say, *I* feel better” point of no return so much quicker because they don’t know it’s alternative medicine. some of it might even be legitimate medicine that works! and all this does is make them less skeptical until they get output that’s plausible but fatal, or until the damage from what they’ve been doing builds up and they can’t survive anymore. and thanks to the LLM, they’ll fight off anyone who tries to help.
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@davidgerard LLMs get alternative medicine patients to the “I don’t care what you say, *I* feel better” point of no return so much quicker because they don’t know it’s alternative medicine. some of it might even be legitimate medicine that works! and all this does is make them less skeptical until they get output that’s plausible but fatal, or until the damage from what they’ve been doing builds up and they can’t survive anymore. and thanks to the LLM, they’ll fight off anyone who tries to help.
@zzt @davidgerard Lies are never more effective than when they're sprinkled with truth, and that's exactly the bread and butter of LLMs: truth-flavoured bullshit.
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@wronglang @cstross @davidgerard I actually agree. It would certainly justify the vast amounts of money they make if they had to take personal responsibility for their harmful decisions. Might make them think a little harder about their decisions
@Jer @cstross @davidgerard I'm into it and I'm also not sure it's necessary. A corporation is just a bunch of greedy people in a trench coat. If you hurt the board with financial consequences for the company that CEO is going to get hurt in the way the care about the most. The broader problem is that we don't properly enforce consequences for companies at all even when the law is pretty clear.
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TIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test". i didn't know that before. in fact I still don't.
the person advocating ChatGPT for medical advice was a GNOME developer too
i'd watch out for signs of GNOME as the next big FOSS project to fill with slop, there's certainly advocates in there
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the person advocating ChatGPT for medical advice was a GNOME developer too
i'd watch out for signs of GNOME as the next big FOSS project to fill with slop, there's certainly advocates in there
@davidgerard I'm kinda surprised they haven't already, given their general behaviour over the years. (Other than the inevitable dependency on harfbuzz ofc.)
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TIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test". i didn't know that before. in fact I still don't.
@davidgerard
big news for the fans of scott adams dying at least
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@Jer @cstross @davidgerard I'm into it and I'm also not sure it's necessary. A corporation is just a bunch of greedy people in a trench coat. If you hurt the board with financial consequences for the company that CEO is going to get hurt in the way the care about the most. The broader problem is that we don't properly enforce consequences for companies at all even when the law is pretty clear.
@wronglang @Jer @davidgerard No, the CEO is only hurt *very indirectly* and usually they'll have moved on to another job (with better pay/options) before the pigeons come home to roost. Consider it took more than two decades for the OxyContin scandal to lead to court verdicts, and the Purdue owners still escaped most liability for thousands of deaths by declaring bankruptcy. How many CEOs did Purdue have during that period?
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