and yet this doesn't change the fact that they wrote an entire medical article the crux of which is little more than hearsay. "did you get advice from an LLM?" is far less relevant and all-catching a question here than "have you made any dietary changes recently?" and yet the article isn't about that, because odd dietary changes aren't the attention-grabbing topic right now. I imagine you could find thousands of similar stories where the culprit was google or facebook or youtube instead of an LM, and yet nothing needs to be changed for them because they too can be covered with a question akin to "have you made any dietary changes recently?"
If there was a guy out there driving around selling bromide tablets to people as a substitute for dangerous chloride in your biochemistry I think asking if you’ve bought anything from the back of a wagon is a reasonable response.
Doctors as a group often try to solve health problems by looking for societal trends. It’s how a lot of diseases get spotted. They’re not saying that using an LLM is the dangerous thing, they’re saying there might be some correlation between soliciting advice from the machine and unusual conditions and it merits further study, so please ask your patients.
