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Erica's avatar

Trust, but verify. I'm still seeing a lot of made up answers coming out of AI. I use it to help brainstorm, but it's nowhere near the point of correct health information now. That said, search engines have taken on so much sponsored content, that most of what's turning up when you do a Google search is paid. Separately, the amount of natural resources that AI takes up is soul crushing.

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Dave deBronkart's avatar

> I use it to help brainstorm, but it's nowhere near the point

> of correct health information now

Exactly! Hugo's Law: "I use it to *help me think." Well done.

I want to especially warn people about using Elon Musk's Grok, or DeepSeek, for anything medical. Musk is quite open about being happy to bend his algorithms any way he wants (without warning!), and DeepSeek has similarly been shown to have an added layer of censorship: the tool does its thinking but then you can sometimes spot it *erasing* some of what it already showed you.

Part of using any tool (from Google on up) is to be aware of its weaknesses. You're right, Erica.

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