Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.”
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
They have to be for a specialized type of treatment or procedure such as looking at patient xrays or other scans. Just slopping PHI into a LLM and expecting it to diagnose random patient issues is what gives the false diagnoses.