So if you want to do a surgery but you don’t see any surgeons around you ask a grocery butcher to have his way?
Who do you choose to be coached by an expert on the ground?
The first: Has no clue about anything and therefore no useful knowledge and cannot challenge me
The second one: Is proven to willfully give wrong information and will make me do mistakes for sure.
The LLMs will do their best, even if imperfect, since they summarizes what appeared in books.
I prefer to be grounded on what Airbus / Boeing manuals, or on what pilots training book said, than two far more unreliable sources.
Properly emotionally processing this fact and your complete inability to do anything about it is called an "existential crisis" and if you haven't had one or several yet, you will.
Putting that aside, your philosophy sounds shallow. Death is certain, but how long you have to live and the quality of that life are not predefined. An incompetent passenger-pilot trying to save you from a crash will at worst make no difference. But an incompetent doctor can teach you that death isn’t necessarily the worst outcome.
I think the different ways people accept death explains a lot of people's psychology, like how you can guess people's attachment styles or Freudian stage fixation. For instance, billionaires who pour all their money into anti-aging research clearly are not handling it well.
Ok for pain in your shoulder it might not, but how about a woman with a lump in her breast waiting for the mammogram interpretation? How about someone trying to understand disturbing lab results? People are also often pushed these days to move through visits with doctors at a breakneck speed, but the AI will "hear you out" all day.
Part of this is a problem with the AI, part of it a problem with our healthcare systems, and part of it is simply human nature. If you think that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and the rest weren't aware of this going in you must have very little faith in the intelligence of their members. It's not hard to imagine the future of LLM's should involve a hell of a lot of liability on the companies running it, but for now it's the Wild West.
Whatever scenario you come up with my answer is the same.
As an adult I’d like to be able to choose what tools I use to learn about my condition regardless of how well it works or even if it’s likely to mislead me.
There’s risk in every aspect of life and we can’t baby proof everything.
Even if it "works" so poorly that you're not actually learning about your condition?
So if you MUST have answers that are at most random guesses, I'd suggest saving a few bucks and asking a coin before flipping it.
Current trend is that the models will try to explicitly steer you towards "asking better questions from your medical provider", rather than providing diagnoses. They do also evaluate whether something can actually be established rather than just listen and nod along. And so the "you must have very little faith in the intelligence of their members" goes right back against these failure mode ideas.
Now of course, given a sufficiently desperate person, they can probably torture anything they want to hear out of these models. But so can they out of actual people, so that's kind of a high bar. When you get to the point where people are willfully misreading a given piece of text, bets tend to be rather off.