Post #3864713
2026-07-16 16:05 UTC
@brib@bribstodon.xyz ok here is some stuff I think, based on a mix of things (being a quantitative social scientist who's worked a lot with predictive models/being a complex patient myself with a horrible diagnostic journey/spending the last year+ doing quite a few hours of patient advocacy work including some help with dx, evidence translation, etc/being someone who wrote a set of guidance about assessing sources while using AI for health research and then had a lot of people reach out about it)
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 16:07
@brib@bribstodon.xyz I think there's huge huge variety in what people are getting "out" of quests for info with AI. In some ways, LLM summaries veer toward consensus. So for instance, I have a long-standing dialogue with a patient friend who is an antivaxxer. She has experienced great hardship and betrayal in the medical system. She knows I'm a scientist, and slowly (for months), we have dialogued about this. I have seen her switch her ruminating, anxious searching from web to AI, and AI is...