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AI chatbots are offering cancer patients alternatives to chemo and sparking concern for health officials
(www.independent.co.uk)
I wish hell was real.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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...I can't believe you figured it out! You ruined everything you know that? 😆
Jason figured it out?! This is a new low.
My mom fell for internet scams that convinced her to treat her cancer with "vibration therapy" before AI was a thing. I can't imagine how much more common shit like that is now.
Is that just chronic masturbation?
So far i didn't get cancer once so..
On the other hand, if you believe a chatbot over your doctors… just saying.
If you believe one doctor on anything...just saying.
My mother's quack refused to listen to her symptoms and insisted she could be treated by dietary changes. We finally paid out of pocket for an MRI and found weeks of metastatic lymphoma growth and got her into a proper oncologist.
If you think you and your loved ones are immune to fear and trying anything that might work when they get cancer and insurance is dragging its ass or treatment is straight up too expensive, then I sincerely hope you never get the opportunity to test that premise.
Getting myself killed by following a chatbot's advice for a cure arguably leaves more for my next of kin than going to the hospital. It could be worth it. You only lose if you're crippled, and someone finds you and sends you to the hospital anyway.
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.
Is ai just as stupid as the user?
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.
Darwinism
Does it recommended putting veggies up their butt, again?
But Sama said it will cure cancer.
Eh if you're stupid enough to go for it, that's on you. Not the AI. See it as survival of the fittest.