alt Hacker NewsLaunching Health in ChatGPT to US Users
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I’m intrigued by the power of these models to help me take more control of my healthcare.
Sure, doctors’ advice is best, but sometimes I wait 6 months to get to see a specialist who seems hell bent on getting through our appt as quickly as possible.
Models are infinitely patient and can see a lot more context about my health.
But, the privacy is a big question mark. The page extensively reassures on privacy (no model training, encrypted, no ads, can be deleted). There’s only one part that stands out to me:
> Memory remains in your control. To personalize future chats, memories can be created from your Health conversations. Memories are not created directly from connected medical records and Apple Health information. If you’d like to have a conversation without creating memories, you can use Temporary Chat (opens in a new window) or turn memory off in Settings > Memory.
Great that you can turn it off in settings but I wonder how many people will do that and how much sensitive context leakage will come out of your conversations and suddenly you’ll get ads for rashes and whatnot.
Hell no
The American Medical Association and health insurance industries can all fuck off. The healthcare situation in the US is so absurd and Kafka-esque I welcome LLMs in medicine. I haven’t seen a MD in years, I’ve only seen nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Add to that how insurance will randomly deny tests, procedures and treatments, I have very little use for the current medical establishment.
This is a terrible idea on any way shape or form you can imagine.
Even if they say they won't, they will, and there is no telling what they would do with the data itself...
Yeaaaaahhhhhh…no
Oh hell no
I think doctors are going to lose their minds or at the very least get extremely agitated/frustrated as patients increasingly use AI tools to do self-research for symptoms and diagnosis. And I know this because I am guilty of this myself and recently had a dentist tell me to not do that. And this applies to so many health workers, your GP as well as your physical therapist, etc.
Recently I had Claude analyze an MRI of my knee and it gave me five different potential problems, but once I got the radiologist report - none of those problems were present, it did not detect that it was chondromalacia that I found out from the radiologist report.
Health and the current iteration of LLM's just doesn't seem like a great match.