Ooof. This sounds like the worst idea I've heard of for a while. I don't feel like this should need to be said, but don't trust an LLM for medical advice. Seriously.
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@mike "OpenAI's new 'dedicated experience' that taps into your medical records..." What could go wrong 😀
On the other hand, as a woman™ I'm actually kind of excited for the advanced pattern recognition that AI could bring. It might help with better identifying women's health issues.
@Gina @mike Unfortunately, AI isn't really good at identifying women's health issues. So, "what could go wrong" could actually be fatal.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2510065-ai-chatbots-miss-urgent-issues-in-queries-about-womens-health/
https://femtechnology.org/2025/07/30/built-to-fail-her-ais-invisible-bias-in-womens-health-and-how-we-fix-it-for-everyone
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/uk-ai-tools-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds/
@kdkorte @mike yeah chatbots are pretty useless, but applications like improved breast cancer screening sound interesting.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0720048X24001736
@Gina Theoretically, AI may be able to better identify women's health issues than some rando doctor, but as a American™ the whole idea of giving all my medical information to a company that's more than likely to turn around and sell it to the highest bidder creeps me the hell out. Especially since those companies could very well be health insurance companies that could decide to deny me coverage based on conditions I may or may not even have. And that's assuming the "AI" is not some random LLM.