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[–] obvs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Counterpoint:

I diagnosed myself with something pretty significant using the internet, and then I went to get evaluated, and my suspicions were confirmed.

This would prevent a lot of good, in addition to preventing some bad.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I diagnosed myself

using the internet

I'm going to assume you researched medical documents, studies, and journals to link things together, and not ask a chat bot "My foot hurts, what is wrong?"

You're smart enough to self diagnose yourself with readily available information to the public, but not smart enough to not know the difference between that and a chat bot. That's remarkable.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using the internet or using a chatbot? Big difference here.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago
[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I diagnosed myself

Congrats, glad your life is hopefully changing for the better because of this.

I hate taking the wind out of your sails but this is in the area of anecdotal evidence. You are a single person saying this for your specific case. I am sure we will get another few people confirming the same here.

But what about how many people tried this and got nothing useful out? Or even a misdiagnose? Anyone enthusiastic about this possibility of AI diagnosing people wouldn't really mention this. People like to mention the successes but it needs to be weighed against the failures too, and I don't think there is a good record of that.

If there is, its probably a medical study and I'd venture a guess that AI did not perform as well as a trained doctor.

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

So you played digital Russian roulette and won. Congratulations.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I diagnosed myself

Putting aside the ultra ignorance and/or untreated narcissism just dripping off of a statement like that... If you were curious of the presence of any absolutely blatent bias in your speech, just look at your use of "a lot" and "some" in your final sentence . Wow....