[burningChrome]

When the internet was completely booming and Google was taking over the search engine world, I asked my Doctor if he was afraid that people were going to start getting their medical advice from Google.

He basically said, "I'm not worried yet. But I would never recommend someone do that. If you have health insurance, that's what you pay for, not for Google to tell you you're just fine, you really don't have cancer."

Thinking about a search engine telling me I don't have cancer was enough to scare the bejesus out me that I swung in the completely opposite direction and for several years became a hypochondriac.

This was also fodder for a lot of stand up comedians. "Google told me I either have the flu, or Ebola, it could go either way, I don't know."

[herpdyderp]

I have health insurance. I don't feel like I get anything out of paying for it, I still get massive bills whenever I use it.

[morshu9001]

That whole thing is so scammy that I totally see why people would rather self-diagnose.

Except the author did it wrong. You don't just ignore a huge rash that every online resource will say is lyme disease. If you really want to trust an LLM, at least prompt it a few different ways.