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AI chatbots are offering cancer patients alternatives to chemo and sparking concern for health officials
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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Is ai just as stupid as the user? I mean it's the same as people have been using the Internet and believing anything... And before that tv, magazines and books...
It just seems like it's good part user error/stupidity.
I could see how this could be an issue if it was a hospital or docters ai service... But if it's not than and it's basically just like people believing everything they google search is real.
A lot of people have no critical thinking skills. And it's getting worse as (usa) marketed lifestyles become more and more consumerist and pointless in terms of actually living a genuine human experience.
AI doesn't even meet the bar for stupid, in the same sense that a toaster isn't stupid... it isn't any measure of thought processing, because it doesn't think.
It generates slop based on slop that it finds/pirates.
Essentially, yes.
The bots are programmed to produce an answer and it's the user who driving the produced output. Thats how all these agentic work is getting done. When the user doesn't like the answers they can direct the bot until they get the answers they want to hear.
Users are typically skimming the output, ignoring what they don't want to hear and guiding it down the rabbit holes they do want to hear.
They can be used as confirmation biased machines. The less curious the mind, the stronger the effect.
I mean, at least you can determine if a source is credible on the internet.
Where as we all know that AI chatbots are all incredible.