• Signtist@bookwyr.me
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    My mom fell for internet scams that convinced her to treat her cancer with “vibration therapy” before AI was a thing. I can’t imagine how much more common shit like that is now.

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      If you believe one doctor on anything…just saying.

      My mother’s quack refused to listen to her symptoms and insisted she could be treated by dietary changes. We finally paid out of pocket for an MRI and found weeks of metastatic lymphoma growth and got her into a proper oncologist.

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      If you think you and your loved ones are immune to fear and trying anything that might work when they get cancer and insurance is dragging its ass or treatment is straight up too expensive, then I sincerely hope you never get the opportunity to test that premise.

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      Getting myself killed by following a chatbot’s advice for a cure arguably leaves more for my next of kin than going to the hospital. It could be worth it. You only lose if you’re crippled, and someone finds you and sends you to the hospital anyway.

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    Eh if you’re stupid enough to go for it, that’s on you. Not the AI. See it as survival of the fittest.

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    Is ai just as stupid as the user? I mean it’s the same as people have been using the Internet and believing anything… And before that tv, magazines and books…

    It just seems like it’s good part user error/stupidity.

    I could see how this could be an issue if it was a hospital or docters ai service… But if it’s not than and it’s basically just like people believing everything they google search is real.

    A lot of people have no critical thinking skills. And it’s getting worse as (usa) marketed lifestyles become more and more consumerist and pointless in terms of actually living a genuine human experience.

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      I mean, at least you can determine if a source is credible on the internet.

      Where as we all know that AI chatbots are all incredible.

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      AI doesn’t even meet the bar for stupid, in the same sense that a toaster isn’t stupid… it isn’t any measure of thought processing, because it doesn’t think.

      It generates slop based on slop that it finds/pirates.

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      Is ai just as stupid as the user?

      Essentially, yes.

      The bots are programmed to produce an answer and it’s the user who driving the produced output. Thats how all these agentic work is getting done. When the user doesn’t like the answers they can direct the bot until they get the answers they want to hear.

      Users are typically skimming the output, ignoring what they don’t want to hear and guiding it down the rabbit holes they do want to hear.

      They can be used as confirmation biased machines. The less curious the mind, the stronger the effect.

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      Just because it wouldn’t do them well doesn’t mean it won’t still convince our bosses it’d do them cheaper.

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    For Example Hyperthermal baths have shown good results in certain types of cancer. The idea behind is that certain cancer cells are way more sensible to high temperatures as normal ones. The treatment is to put the patient in a bath and with an glucose infusion, increasing the water teperature slowly to 42º for an certain time, keeping the head cool. The hydrotherapy and a certain diet are valid methodes to increase the autodefense of the organism. Anyway, currently the alternative medicine can only reduce the needed traditional radiation/chemo therapies, not substitute it, in the hand of medical experts it may be a good complement, increasing the quality of the patients life.