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If doctors consult chatgpt (unregulated, uncertified) that's on them, not the platform. I hope your old team keep working on high quality stuff but I can understand if they walk away.

I have seen some chatbot type products aimed at the admin side of healthcare, with the salesmen telling me about the 'guardrails'. Given some guy recently got the bot at his utility supplier to start criticising the company and using foul language then I do not think even this less critical work is ready for general use.




Well, I think it's worse than you may think: the startup is not even allowed to market their products as medical tools unless they're certified. ChatGPT is used today by doctors without being certificied. How is that fair?


I don't think it is fair and I do know the difference between a regulated product and an ad hoc (mis)use of ChatGPT. I just do not think you can blame OpenAI for doctors (or other professionals) ignoring the warning they are presented with. On the other hand I do think professional bodies should be inclined to strike off members who do this kind of thing.


Doctors use Google, Google was marketed as a search engine and not a medical tool. Seems like if ChatGPT is advertised as a language model and not a medical model, it's completely fair. Irresponsible for doctors to rely on, maybe, but I don't see why a non-medical tool needs to be medically certified just because doctors choose to use it


Then why do we need certification at all? Everyone just brand your tool as non-medical, not matter whether it is intended for medical use or not, and Bob's your uncle!


Because doctors are liable for improperly using non-medical means to diagnose and cure illnesses, even if they might theoretically help. If I develop a new design of pliers for my skateboard that end up working really well for performing throat surgery, you're free to go and make a similar product and get that certified. I don't see why mine needs to be certified. I didn't make it for medical use. GPT explicitly tells you not to use it for diagnosis purposes, how many doctors need to use something before it's forced to get certified despite its intended use?




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