Major wellness influencer sources medical advice from ChatGPT
mcgill.caGiven who this this, the source of information is a dramatic improvement over past sources.
"Getting health advice from Joe Mercola at this point is beyond defensible."
It was OK before?
You summarized this guy as "Influential anti-vaxxer and supplement salesman Joe Mercola wants veterinarians killed as he blows CO₂ gas up his rear."
If listeners don't feel sceptical after THAT, I'm not sure anything can still convince them...
It is not unreasonable to try and write in a fashion which attempts (perhaps unsuccessfully?) to coax people away from Mercola’s world. Even if you are fully steeped in that alt-med rabbithole, I would hope the revelation that Mercola’s information often comes from ChatGPT (“because it has no reason to lie”) would be enough to give someone pause.
Perhaps it’s not, but fair credit to the compassion of the author for the assumption that it might.
(Disclosure: I know the author personally, though we have not discussed this topic)
Imagine an AI that trains on itself and the falsehood it produces. This removes the "science advances, one death at a time" - and thus, spinach is extraordinary rich in irony forever.
If they are blowing CO2 up their butt do they really deserve to live? I say we do nothing for a while. It's been too long the herd hasn't been thinned.
I suppose for a lot of the population, this bit of "science" (what CO2 is and what effects it has) is as comprehensible as how vaccines or mRNA work, and if they trust the snake oil salespeople like they trust proper scientists they can be very misled.
But hey, surely the wealthiest country in the world properly funds K-12 schools, right?
It's not a given that anti-vax belief correlates with lowered educational standards. I would imagine it's far more complex.
Neither issue is isolated to the US.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2106441
Not straightforward.