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> He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time

He literally wrote that. I asked how he knows it's the right direction.

it must be treatment worked. otherwise it is more or less just a hunch

people go "oh yep that's definitely it" too easily. it is the problem with self diagnosing. And you didn't even notice it happened...

without more info this is not evidence.



We had the diagnosis before I started with the LLM. The radiology showed the problem and the surgeries worked. Down to an ultrasound a year now!

We took him to our local ER, they ran tests. I gave the LLM just the symptom list that I gave to the ER initially. It replied with all the things they tested for. I gave the test results, and it suggested a short list with diagnostics that included his actual Dx and the correct way to test for it.


That's great that it worked so quickly too (and you could arrange surgery on such short notice). I'm sure more people with same issue may benefit from more details?


As it's my son's health issues, not my own, I'm going to preserve his privacy until he can consent to sharing in...8 years.


Apparently this news is just that it's "not allowed" by ToS, but ChatGPT will still give advice so it doesn't really matter. I thought the new model already denied you advice because you said you used an older model, but I guess it was unrelated to this news.

By the way unless you used an anonymous mode I wonder how much the model knew from side channels that could contribute to suggesting correct diagnosis...




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