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hlthe2b

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3. I am appalled at how much personal, identifying information--including detailed medical info patients are posting to AI

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:51 PM

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with essentially zero protections for that data. Everything can be used against them, whether for scams, identity theft, blackmail (in some cases), and obviously urging them to do or purchase things that can harm/kill them!

I admit. I never saw this coming SO FAST. I do not know how to fight it. The most educated and already skeptical will listen to me, but that is NOT the majority.

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'DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines': my mother's worrying reliance on AI for health advice [View all] erronis Friday OP

Gross -DeepSeek disgusts me jfz9580m Friday #1

Please excuse if this is a tangent, but snot Friday #2

I totally agree. And my cardiologist doesn't want to know about my blood cancer. erronis Friday #4

Sorry to hear you have blood cancer Erronis jfz9580m Friday #7

Thank you. If it ain't one thing, it'll be another.... erronis Saturday #10

Also PE, Private Equity, for profit investors buy up Drs offices, clinics, hospitals, more, cut staff, services appalachiablue Friday #6

I am appalled at how much personal, identifying information--including detailed medical info patients are posting to AI hlthe2b Friday #3

Along with musk/doge stealing all the data they could from the US health agencies. erronis Friday #5

There is no option but for serious legal pushback jfz9580m Friday #8

This article makes me appreciate my doctors here jfz9580m Saturday #9

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