Jesus fuck. As someone who works in biotech: this is probably going to kill people.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Like why don't we just have ACTUAL DOCTORS and techs trained to do this actually test it. Wild concept I know.
Because it costs money to educate the doctors, then they want money.
It’s ok they’re replacing the doctors with LLMs now it’ll be fine I promise
Yesterday on reddit I saw a photo a patient shot over the shoulder of his doctor of his computer monitor. It had ChadGPT full with diagnosis requests.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1keqstk/doctor_using_chatgpt_for_a_visit_due_to_knife_cut/
Doctors cost money and the money goes to doctors. LLMs cost less and the money goes to billionaire fascist techbros. The fact that they're not fit for purpose is insignificant compared to the potential for techbro enrichment.
Also, doctors have an annoying habit of helping people to live regardless of whether techbro eugenics says they deserve to.
They don't care though, if anything it's more money for the medical profit machine.
Ah great, horrors beyond my imagination.
He could see AI being used more immediately to address certain “low-hanging fruit,” such as checking for application completeness. “Something as trivial as that could expedite the return of feedback to the submitters based on things that need to be addressed to make the application complete,” he says. More sophisticated uses would need to be developed, tested, and proved out.
Oh no, the dystopian horror...
LLMs also do a lot of mistakes even when used for text analysis, and as the tech sector loves the "move fast and break things" mantra, it'll be put into practice much earlier than it should be.
Turns out Umbrella Corp was an AI company that pivoted?
I hate this timeline.
If it’s trained carefully, professionally, responsibly, with bonafide medical research data exclusively, I can see it being a boon to healthcare professionals. I just don’t know if I can trust that will happen in the timeline we live in.
Open evidence is a legit tool my colleagues and classmates use every day. Open AI is leagues behind them especially in terms of HIPAA compliance.
damn i see that chatbots don't want to stay behind rfk jr in body count
will they learn that safety regulations are written in blood? who am i kidding, that's not their blood
Most PCs no longer have floppy disk readers or CD drives, where are they going to put the placebo or drugs in. /s