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dolebirchwood • yesterday at 10:46 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Nah. I'm permanently jaded from an experience I had as a teenager visiting a doctor.

I don't recall the specifics, but there were symptoms of an ENT infection, nothing serious. I remember being concerned about a white lump on one of my tonsils. The doctor's diagnosis? A stuck piece of rice.

No, it was not a piece of rice. It was a tonsil stone. It happens almost every time I get sick. And I guarantee that if I shared my symptoms and a photo with AI, it would render the same conclusion.

Would it be dumb to blindly trust everything a model says? Sure. Should you trust it alone, especially for major issues? No. But having received such a stupid and brain-dead diagnosis from a supposed "professional" doctor in the past, I would never give them the automatic benefit of the doubt.