Post #3864719

@grimalkina@mastodon.social I don't have a huge amount of experience in this area and most of my chronic illness diagnosis journey was done via Dr Google / social media (which also got highly derided at the time). I'm pretty anti-LLM but I'm also aware there can be complexities and I don't want to go about yelling at people when they're e.g. in the position of the 50 year old cancer patient and just want answers. In your experience, when it comes to harm (e.g. going down a wrong information rabbit hole) vs benefit (e.g. the benefits to motivation), how do you think AI use compares and fits in with these older methods of using the Internet to figure out chronic illness? Are they similar, or do some methods have better benefit-against-harm profiles? Has LLM use affected the ability to access non-LLM methods? (I'm thinking how it used to be easy to access human-written information but now it's much harder).