I read it more charitably. Double check with the LLM because it is pretty good a lot of the time and might uncover some useful insights or oversights. Don't blindly trust what it says, definitely, but use what you get from it to guide further inquiry from reputable sources.

No one advocated "putting your healthcare decision in the hands of an LLM." Answer the post that was written, not the one you rewrote in your head to conform to your biases.

Current frontier LLMs are incredibly powerful diagnosticians. They will generally give you the best assessment that can be made on the basis of the information you include in the prompt. So it's important to make sure that information is accurate, and also that it's phrased well enough to allow the model to weigh the importance of each detail.

Unsurprisingly, the same tips are important when communicating with your actual doctors.

Nah. I'm permanently jaded from an experience I had as a teenager visiting a doctor.

I don't recall the specifics, but there were symptoms of an ENT infection, nothing serious. I remember being concerned about a white lump on one of my tonsils. The doctor's diagnosis? A stuck piece of rice.

No, it was not a piece of rice. It was a tonsil stone. It happens almost every time I get sick. And I guarantee that if I shared my symptoms and a photo with AI, it would render the same conclusion.

Would it be dumb to blindly trust everything a model says? Sure. Should you trust it alone, especially for major issues? No. But having received such a stupid and brain-dead diagnosis from a supposed "professional" doctor in the past, I would never give them the automatic benefit of the doubt.