>Is this just a vibe thing or has anyone actually done some statistics on this?
There's extensive reporting on this from pretty decent news sources, and countless forum posts from seemingly real non-throwaway accounts which aren't otherwise spamming LLM content.
> based on the fact that you personally feel like LLMs are good at medical advice.
No, I don't think that's the case. LLMs sometimes give good advice, the bad advice isn't harmful unless you blindly trust the advice.
People go to a doctor or two, their symptoms are dismissed as [insert very common problem here], ask LLM, receive advice suggesting that [uncommon condition] also fits the symptoms and then take that to a doctor.
This also happens using Google every day. LLMs aren't special, they just make searching the internet a bit easier.
There's extensive reporting on this from pretty decent news sources, and countless forum posts from seemingly real non-throwaway accounts which aren't otherwise spamming LLM content.
> based on the fact that you personally feel like LLMs are good at medical advice.
No, I don't think that's the case. LLMs sometimes give good advice, the bad advice isn't harmful unless you blindly trust the advice.
People go to a doctor or two, their symptoms are dismissed as [insert very common problem here], ask LLM, receive advice suggesting that [uncommon condition] also fits the symptoms and then take that to a doctor.
This also happens using Google every day. LLMs aren't special, they just make searching the internet a bit easier.