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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9705879" data-attributes="member: 42856">I don't think (but maybe it's possible/will be possible) for a chatbot to differentiate between the two. You can lie to the chatbot and tell him that you inquire about symptom A in general, then of symptom B, get it to say that these symptoms can be associated with a list containing thirty disease, without telling him you're actually suffering from them and are looking for medical advice. I am not sure the chatbot can both have the knowledge and not dispense it in a foolproof manner. You already can't ask "I have a cardiac deficiency, what treatment should I do?" (you get an answer saying you should see a doctor about that and an offer to reword your symptom to facilitate explaining what you feel to the doctor), but if you want to avoid a user bypassing that and getting information of usual cures for cardiac deficiency, to which he'd say, for example, beta-blockers, and then you can ask the most sold beta-blocker, to which he'd say Metoprolol, and you can self-treat your cardiac arythmia (that you never had)... I fear you would have to neuter the training data on a lot of medical information to prevent answers to be given.Unless you have something specific in mind to distinguish advice from information? Maybe commercially operated, web-based AI are already not dispensing medical advice with the way they frame the information they give. They do however answer questions about health and accept to explain what drugs do or what kind of information checking the amount of iron in your blood can reveal.And that's how resistance against antibiotic builds up... But I can totally see that. I googled a little more on the question of Dr Google, and I found studies on the cost of unwarranted doctor's appointment for the UK's NHS, estimated at half a billion pound (in 2018). Basically people with headache going to see a doctor about their brain cancer instead of waiting for it to pass, but not the reverse.</blockquote>

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