[terminalshort]

Their protection, not yours. Hopefully this will draw public backlash just like when they tried to ban Uber and make everybody go back to cabs. Fuck the entire credential cartel based system of societal organization. Burn it to the ground.

[theturtletalks]

They will come for medical advice provided by AI as well. Doctors have been gate keeping that forever and they want you to have to go thru them instead of diagnosing yourself thru AI.

Yes, there are people that will misdiagnose themselves, but I’ve read stories where doctors ignore patients symptoms or wave them off, and ChatGPT helps them find the underlying issue and actually improve their lives. Even if doctors and the medical field can’t handicap AI giving medical advice, I’m sure they are going to make it much harder for patients to get their hands on their own scans and bloodwork.

[terminalshort]

I know because I've lived it. My other comment on this post:

> I have narcolepsy. It took a dozen or so doctors and years of suffering before I got a correct diagnosis, and even then it was only because I diagnosed myself with Google and then specifically made an appointment with a doctor who specializes in it. Gemini nails it when I put in my symptoms.

Also, I had to vouch for your totally legit comment b/c somebody who doesn't want other people to read it flagged it dead.

[cybercatgurrl]

as someone who was failed by psychiatry and tried all regular medications AI helped me find an off label treatment for my mood disorder that has had a profoundly life changing experience for me. what they’ll be doing is removing experiences and stories like this where gaps in knowledge allowed psychiatry to fail and AI helped me the find the cutting edge of research to get the treatment i needed desperately!

[rrmm]

Doctors carry malpractice insurance.