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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9703251" data-attributes="member: 19675">Asked and answered.  The LLM isn’t the responsible party- whomever is causing the FDA to promulgate falsehoods is.Not in this case, as I described.Nevertheless, COVID provides a well-documented, recent case study in this.  Public health organizations and experts didn’t simply claim they were right because they were authorities, they said Covid-19 was a new virus and they didn’t know exactly what it could do, so they were basing their recommendations on what they knew from related pathogens while waiting for new research results.When those results came in, they revised their recommendations, expressly in the context that new information was responsible for the changes.  That’s how you create policy in accord with the scientific method- you change recommendations when better information becomes available.This was mischaracterized by certain outlets and individuals as lying.  And that narrative captured the minds of an unfortunately large segment of the populace.The CDC, WHO, Fauci, etc, didn’t misrepresent what they knew & when they knew it, nor hide behind their credentials.  People systematically attacked their credibility.  With that pretext, they also destroyed trust in well-established medical and public health findings.  At this point, a large enough segment of the adult population (in America, at least) have demonstrated they can’t properly evaluate medical info for veracity and accuracy.  So no, generalized AIs should not be able to disseminate any medical advice beyond “find a qualified medical professional near you”*And further, AIs specialized for medical or legal professionals shouldn’t be accessible to the general public either.  Most people lack even the vocabulary to fully grasp the results their questions would return.* and likewise for legal advice.</blockquote>

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