[bogwog]

My (somewhat cynical) explanation is that they want to deter people from taking these types of medical pictures on their phones, since that makes Google's job easier.

Rather than improve their AI to avoid more of these types of false positives, or invest in their customer support teams to deal with these situations, they can eliminate this entire class of false positives by scaring people with articles like this.

EDIT: which if true, is kind of extra fucked up when you consider the potential consequences of delaying medical treatment for a child.