this is fresh news right? a friend just used chatgpt for medical advice last week (stuffed his wound with antibiotics after motorbike crash). are you saying you completely treated the congenital issue in this timeframe?

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cj 14 hours ago | parent [-]

He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time.

Edit: Not saying this is the case for the person above, but one thing that might bias these observations is ChatGPT’s memory features.

If you have a chat about the condition after it’s diagnosed, you can’t use the same ChatGPT account to test whether it could have diagnosed the same thing (since the chatGPT account now knows the son has a specific condition).

The memory features are awesome but also sucks at the same time. I feel myself getting stuck in a personalized bubble even more so than Google.

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ninininino 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can just use the wipe memory feature or if you don't trust that, then start a new account (new login creds), if you don't trust that then get a new device, cell provider/wifi, credit card, I.P, login creds etc.

	▲	cj 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or start a “temporary” chat.

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throwaway290 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time

He literally wrote that. I asked how he knows it's the right direction.

it must be treatment worked. otherwise it is more or less just a hunch

people go "oh yep that's definitely it" too easily. it is the problem with self diagnosing. And you didn't even notice it happened...

without more info this is not evidence.