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Re:GenAI and erroneous medical references by renewiltord on Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:12AM (#39498708)
LOL what a fucking idiot. This is the reason we have those warning stickers on everything. This tool even comes with a warning sticker and he still did it. "CAUTION: Do not stick nose in table saw blade. Table saw will cut nose." Hahaha, what a fucking moron.

I think it's best we don't give him access to a piece of paper and pen lest he write "Table saws are great for noses" on it and finds it the next day and is convinced. Haha, what an idiot.

I'm sorry, mate. Your friend needs to go ask a real doctor what the problem is so he can be told the true diagnosis: he's got an IQ of mu - 6 sigma.

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Re:GenAI and erroneous medical references by squigz on Sunday February 25, 2024 @04:43AM (#39499310)
You should give the HN guidelines a read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Re:GenAI and erroneous medical references by renewiltord on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:46AM (#39501714)
That friend should give nothing a read. I think fiction might be an infohazard. Before you know it, he's liable to irradiate himself with gamma rays to become strong and invincible like the Hulk.
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Re:GenAI and erroneous medical references by harvey9 on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:01AM (#39499433)
The friend was already consulting with doctors (plural).

It is quite common for people with ambiguous presentations to take a long time to get a definitive diagnosis. Not surprising that some of them will be receptive to Cranks and GenAIs along the way.

Some years ago I was on a neurology ward (for something straightforward) and my neighbour had been trying to get a diagnosis for his problems for about a year. He finally got one but it took a panel of senior medics in a top hospital in a big city to crack it.

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