ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges

lardosaurusrex

The amount of times these LLMs randomly refuse to answer basic questions because "omg safety" only to turn around and do this f￭￭￭ing nonsense is obscene. I'm not blaming the LLM because it's just a pile of math glued together with hubris and anxiety but why is its default response not "I am not a medical professional and you should see a doctor right away if you have any concerns"?

sheepscreek

I really hope the lawsuit does not end in OpenAI tightening the “safety” and “security” of their models into oblivion. I hope they understand that a lobotomized model is as good as my Casio watch. I want my models to give it to me straight without patronizing me. I’m an adult and I take responsibility for my own actions.

harvey9

All the chat bots have a very discreet disclaimer at the bottom of the page. I want to say it should be bigger text and more strongly worded but like most people I would just mentally tune it out regardless.

arm32

Why are people even allowed to dress up ChatGPT... an autoregressive transformer... as a faith-based holistic doctor? Anybody could see this going wrong from a hundred miles away.

heaney-555

This was with GPT-4o (ancient now by AI standards). The reason OpenAI refuses to bring it back, despite all the demand, is that when the conversation gets long enough it starts doing weird things like this. Subsequent models have almost entirely eliminated this kind of thing.

fhn

this is number one bullshit. You ask a medical professional for medical advice. Getting medical advice from AI or anywhere else is your own fault.

sharts

There are no bounds to human stupidity