[Quenby]

I walked away from this with a feeling I can't quite put into words. I'm not a doctor, and I don’t really understand medical AI, but a friend of mine who is a doctor has been relying more and more on ChatGPT lately—to look up guidelines, organize his thoughts. He says it’s not that it knows more than he does, but that it’s fast, clear, and saves him time. That got me thinking. I used to assume AI in healthcare was about replacing people. Now, it feels more like an extension. Like doctors are getting an extra pair of hands—or a second consultation room that's always online. Maybe that’s what progress looks like: human judgment is still there, but increasingly shaped by structured input. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. It just feels complicated.

[tmpz22]

The problem is the healthcare industry will leverage this to place more responsibilities in the hands of increasingly less qualified individuals - as they're already doing with nurses. Costs will never go down, but the salary of healthcare professionals and quality of care will.

AI is a tool to transfer wealth from the middle class to the ultra wealthy. If there is a brief intermediary period where quality of life improves for the poor, it's a temporary coincidence that hasn't been optimized away yet.

Your. Costs. Will. Never. Go. Down. While. Maintaining. Equal. Service. In. The. Long. Term. That's. Not. What. Capitalists. Want.

[trollbridge]

Exactly correct. So eventually we’ll pay a nurse’s aide to type prompts into GPT the same price for a visit where we used to see an MD (and then an NP, and then a PA, and then a BSN, and then an RN…), and get charged the same.

[mallardgryph]

the amount of obvious astroturfing by people with investments in LLMs on this website is insane.

you only need to look at this thread alone to prove your point. this is a race to the bottom that we're being accelerated towards by some of the worst people on earth.