Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they’re right

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Sycophantic, but also “lawsuit avoidant”.

    I was released from the hospital following surgery last month and I had a bleeding “event”. I use the word “event” because it sounds more festive.

    Shortly after that, I went to the bathroom, the bleeding seemed to have stopped.

    Just for fun, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT what it thought, telling it the nature of the surgery, the bleeding event, the non-bleeding event, and asking it “So… best of three?”

    And it went HARD on “this is not a best of three scenario! Call 9-1-1! Do it now! You could pass out! Call 9-1-1!”

    I did not call 9-1-1. The bleeding did not resume, I’m fine.

    • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Happy… bleedivus, I guess!

      But seriously, I don’t think the AI was very wrong here, depending on how severe the bleeding was? Did the doctors say anything?

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        2 hours ago

        Normal post surgical stuff after, you know, getting gutted like a fish. 😉 Stage 2 colon cancer surgery.