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Wait, why do people use WebMd? Is it used by medical professionals? I thought its for regular people diagnosing their problem for fun. All of that information they can get from their doctor. For really specific information like symptoms for a disease, I cannot imagine there be a hallucinations. Even if it did today, it will only get better over time. I don't see it as a problem with this specific use case. I am one of the biggest AI skeptics out there, but when there is practical use, I accept it


you are using chatgpt for medical info today because it might get better tomorrow? your comment wasn't what you plan to do it in future with it, you claimed you are doing all those things today. Now you are talking something about future hypothetical.


You missed the nuance in my statement. May be I will try rephrase it for you

I am saying the use of webmd is all for non medical purposes, just people reading symptoms that they should be getting from their doctor anyway.

Now for the nuance, for the purpose of meaningless consumption it doesn’t matter if there are hallucinations, people are not supposed to take medication based on webmd. Given the really established nature of diseases and symptoms, I find it hard to believe there will be hallucinations, even if there are, it will become better. All of this doesn’t impact me one bit because I don’t do anything medical based off webmd of chat gpt, I go to a doctor


yea i really don't understand what consuming webmd for non medical purposes even means. purpose of consuming hallucinated medical info is like reading medical fiction?

but you do you.


what do you use it for?


to understand symptoms and side effects of drugs i am prescribed.

No doctor ( atleast in this part of the world) will go over all the side effects of the drug that they prescribe.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/statins/side-effects/

this website is not entertainment for me.


Oh that is super odd! The doctor is not supposed to give you those. They are not supposed to prescribe you drugs without inquiring allergies and talking about side effects.

Also you should not be trust By webmd at all! How do you know they are not just asking someone AI to populate their data base or worse someone is making copy paste errors? If you can trust webmd you can an AI. Anything that is not a doctor is not to be trusted for life threatening advice

But I get it, it has worked for you so far with webmd so you trust it. Am also glad you are skeptical about anything new too.




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