david barsky @davidbarsky.com · Nov 26

i mean, it straight-up said “don’t touch the eye” and “go see a vet immediately, this is an emergency”. the fact that it said that, even if the prompt is written like one of her records, is very good her clients are already relying on ai tools, and if this is what they see? could be way worse.

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MJS · Nov 26

It gave correct advice *that time.* It won't do that every time. Even it gives the right advice 9/10 times that means 10% of animals will be mistreated because people were relying on the advice of a device that has no idea what it's talking about.

david barsky · Nov 26

like, she’s had multiple clients who wanted to refuse vaccines for their dogs because they didn’t want their dogs to get autism. if ai get those people to do the right thing, then i can’t be too mad about this use case

cait (and adonis) · Nov 26

this prompt? do you think this is layman's terms?

Cuw · Nov 26

I love to ask the lying machine that told me how to melt eggs 6 months ago how to take care of a living thing i love deeply. In what world do you not fucking call the vet? Oh no this weird thing is happening to something i love i know i will ask the lie machine

Alan Grofield · Nov 26

Oh wow I can’t believe it knew the response to “my cat is very sick” is “go to the vet”, truly magic stuff here Dave