[monerozcash]

Nobody here is advocating blindly trusting medical advice from LLMs, that is not "dangerous medical misinformation".

Even if you absolutely despise LLMs, this is just silly. The problem here isn't "AI enthusiasts", you're getting called out for the absolute lack of nuance in your article.

Yes, people shouldn't do what you did. Yes, people will unfortunately continue doing what you did until they get better advice. But the correct nuanced advice in a HN context is not "never ask LLMs for medical advice", you will rightfully get flamed for that. The correct advice is "never trust medical advice from LLMs, it could be helpful or it could kill you".

[shortrounddev2]

You are unambiguously wrong. Never ask LLMs for medical advice. There is no nuance here, and I suspect the only reason there's so much backlash against this simple and obvious fact is because the amount of money in this scam of an industry

[monerozcash]

> Never ask LLMs for medical advice

If you're not going to trust it, why? What could possibly go wrong? At best you receive useful suggestions to take to a doctor, or guidance on which kind of specialist you should try to talk to. At worst you receive useless advice and maybe waste a bit of time