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@northoftheborder

I find ChatGPT helpful to get pointers on what to look for elsewhere, but use with extreme caution.

1. If you upload personal health information to ChatGPT, you're sending it somewhere not governed by HIPAA rules around protecting patient data. There's nothing but their vague promises to keep it out of the hands of (say) an employer, insurance adjuster, foreign government, or identity-theft hacker.

2. ChatGPT gives accurate answers the majority of the time, but wildly -inaccurate ones maybe one time out of 3 or 4 (depending on the field). Changing the phrasing of your question slightly can result in a diametrically-opposite answer.

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Inactive | @akiwi | 2 days ago

@northoftheborder has a good point about (very occasional) bad answers which is covered a bit in the caveats above.

I'm super privacy conscious, I use privacy enabled browsers and opt out wherever I can, and you won't find any photo of me on the internet anywhere (that I know about), but I don't have an issue with the Open AI (chatgpt) privacy policy which I have read.
And a lot of personal data is stored here as well.

Breaches do happen (I work in cyber security) and hospitals have been targeted but I feel my data is probably safe at OpenAI.

It's all about risks vs benefits. If you look at the cookies or the sites that may be called from most pages (including this forum) it's a bit scary.

Chatgpt can give bad answers (especially if you tell it that it is wrong, it will correct itself wrongly!) but the recent models are very good and for most medical subjects it is excellent (training data sources are good).

p.s. this is chatgpt's analysis of the content security policy (what the website is allowed to do, not what it necessarily does) of this forum 😉
https://chatgpt.com/share/675c47cb-e078-8013-8964-52422495f4c5
This site is actually supplied by a well respected company (I checked before joining) so I have absolutely no problem with it at all.

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | 2 days ago

I use ChatGPT only to translate medical "mumbo jumbo" that I don't understand. I find something like "Explain this in two paragraphs at an 8th grade level: " and then pasting a huge amount of technical medical data is really useful.

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