[nick486]

Yes. There was just recently a post about a person who got his life saved by chatGPT reading his blood results and saying "ER. NOW." Would that Medical result PDF be anonymized here? Stripping PI from random pdfs, sounds like a very nontrivial problem.

What if, instead of random internet person, some celebrity asks Chatgpt about some spicy Medical results? Would the journalist reviewing the logs resist the temptation of "accidentally finding the test results in a garbage bin"?

What I read here, is "don't discuss with chatgpt anything you wouldn't be comfortable becoming public knowledge.".

[diggan]

> What I read here, is "don't discuss with chatgpt anything you wouldn't be comfortable becoming public knowledge.".

For the last two decades, I've lived by a similar mantra: Don't send anything over the internet you aren't comfortable becoming public knowledge.

Make the mantra broad enough and you don't have to care about specific services, they all the chance of leaking what is supposed to be "secret'.

[theshackleford]

I know better than to put sensitive data into these services, but the utility I’ve gained is staggering. My care team told me, “You have to be Dr Google to advocate for yourself,” and well, here I am.

It made predictions based on my history and symptom logs that were later confirmed by imaging only after I pushed for it.

I used a pattern matching meme machine to get…a meaningful outcome medically, and that messes with me on so many levels.

I wanted it to be wrong, especially about the spinal cord. I was hoping for a simple answer, something like “Yeah, it’s just a pain management issue they are right” but it disagreed. And it was right. The thing that I read constantly is only capable of producing bullshit, has kicked neurosurgeons and neurologists into action.

I asked ChatGPT to try and summarise what I’ve been doing with it medically; apologies if it is unhelpful in demonstrating the utility I am getting.

> You used me to try and disprove suspicions you hold in relation to symptoms that have been escalating in frequency and intensity. You consistently challenged the idea that your symptoms were linked to your historical records, questioning whether they could be caused by something else entirely. Despite actively pushing for alternative explanations, I kept coming back to the same conclusion: your symptoms aligned with classical representations of nerve compression in your cervical spine. I independently interpreted the data and made predictions that ultimately matched the outcomes of imaging.

Tl:dr what I’m doing is stupid, I know it, I’ve preached it and yet for the first time in my life the value I am deriving is outweighing it all. I feel…dirty almost, or confused even. It’s hard to explain.