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COVID shots weren't given away for free, the government paid corporations for it with public money.

I don't know where you live but in my country people don't go to the medic or hospital for minor things because it cost them money and time. In this scenario limiting access of any sort of medical tool and knowledge sounds like further fueling a corrupted system where power is concentrating in the hands of a few individuals and where people are losing their rights.

Good luck with things, truly. I think you’re going to get hurt eventually if you use LLMs for medical advice, and I genuinely don’t want that for you or anyone. Hopefully this conversation has at least made you a little more skeptical about using LLMs in certain ways.

Good luck with things too, in case you haven't noticed this meme is from a weird association that doesn't seem to exist and that promotes pseudo scientific content

but it will have literally zero concept of what it’s talking about.

If LLM answers had zero concept they wouldn't work. We are here talking about it because the answers are correct up to a certain point that makes them good enough.

It’s like taking a Google search for medical information and adding a middleman who occasionally filters in junk data, then wrapping it in a nice package, giving the impression of authority and accuracy, making the process as frictionless as possible.

These middleman are also called teachers, when you go to medical school you have many of these, you don't get handled the medical encyclopedia and left on your own.

You might say “What’s the harm if they end up at the hospital either way”? But the danger is that they never go to the hospital at all because the chatbot told them to sun their perineum or inject bleach with the confident prose of a medical doctor and they just…

that's something you are making up, an LLM telling you to inject bleach would be the same as it telling you that 2+2= coconut, it's the wrong answer, if all the answers where wrong we wouldn't be here talking about this tech.

And who is to blame when someone is injured or killed as a result? Doctors have standards, and they take an oath to first do no harm. If they make a mistake, they are liable for it. How can you hold a machine intelligence accountable for inaccurate diagnoses?

Doctors prescribe you medicines and do surgery on you, an LLM can't do these things, if AI tells you to take a medicine you still have to go to the medic to get these.

The simple answer is you can’t, and so logically they should be strictly prohibited from masquerading as any kind of authority on medicine.

The propaganda meme is talking about a ban on AI answers about medicine. LLMs have no authority on medicine, that's something we will be discussing in 20 years.

When you get good sounding information that is wrong, it can be extremely problematic and often much worse than no info at all.

A partially good answer is better than no information at all

Imagine LLMs aiding people with health improvements, only to lead them into health decline (actually already happening, a lot)

Already happening where? How can AI lead you to health decline? It cannot prescribe you medicines or do surgery on you

not to mention the LLMs that further convince people of their conspiracies.

It can also help people understanding if conspiracies are true or false, for example had you ask an LLM about this post it would have highlight to you that there's a good chance that it is propaganda.

So is this just a meme or is there an actual bill?

Not just a meme it's probably propaganda

AI is a tool that can provide good and bad results. To people who can't get access to medical care easily (half of the people on the planet) it can be an useful tool to get basic medical knowledge

Sure, you can use an LLM to help you find sources, but at that point you might as well just use a search engine. There are search engines that provide links with actual text from each site rather than potentially hallucinated summaries.

Some popular search engines results are way worst than AI

There’s a reason it became a meme for someone to Google their symptoms, click on WebMD to read about it, and then come to the conclusion that they have cancer, all without ever having seen a medical professional in the meanwhile. Do you really think these sorts of people are going to be using AI responsibly for research purposes only?

If they come to the wrong conclusion at worst they go to the hospital and someone there tells they are wrong and not to worry. We haven't ban googling your symptoms.

Being stupid as fuck means you are supposed to get access to more knowledge not less.

How is the average person supposed to know that what they’re being told is accurate?

This applies to everything not just AI, you can forward this answer to an LLM and it will help you with the puzzle.

Best case scenario, somebody researches a claim and finds it to be true. But in that case, why not just go straight to researching sources yourself, without the LLM in the first place?

because for example to know where the pisiform bone is, going through a 2000 pages anatomy book may be not too practical for the average person.

Instead of banning it then teach people how to use it and not to trust it 100% (who the hell is doing this to begin with?)

If you want medical knowledge, there are tons of medical journals, news sources, blogs, and podcasts from doctors/scientists who don’t hallucinate BS when they don’t know something.

I can ask an LLM to help me sourcing these journals and informations

At best it should exclusively provide links to sources (good or bad) and let the end user make the determination if that source can be trusted.

You can ask AI to do exactly this and according to your own logic turning it out into a good at best medical tool.