alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it.
it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.
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@molly0xfff I am uncertain about this post. Fitbit doesn't have any sort of background messenger that will reach out and say "don't forget to drink." They might be misinterpreting or intentionally misreading the standard coaching notifications. If he is drinking 6-12 beers daily, he won't be thinking clearly.
I only say all of this because as much as I think we need to question AI, we need to avoid making stuff up or drawing conclusions without evidence.
@molly0xfff clearly a troll, the zero votes show that
@molly0xfff This is really scary, but a good friend of mine did die because he tried to quit cold turkey, which was the prevailing advice he got from everyone at the time, especially AA, but this is a massive overcorrection of that advice.
@molly0xfff This has to be satire.
Google should be shutdown and dismantled into cubicles.
But drinking is the least of this guy's problems. Just a symptom. This idiotic dependency is generations in the making by Republicans, and it'll take twice as many to claw back.
He needed humans a long, long time ago.
I hope he gets help. Being a drunk fucking sucks. But he's clearly had the capacity to help himself educated right out of him.
@molly0xfff Jesus fucking christ, that poor person. I hope they got the support and help they need (from a person). Fucking hell.
@molly0xfff what in the actual
@molly0xfff A friend told me about how he was able to use an LLM to do a project that he would have otherwise not been able to do. I told him that I see it like cyber-cocaine. Some people just take a little bump and it helps them do things that they otherwise could never have done.
Some people only take a little bump once in a while and never go over that.
Most people don't have that experience.
@molly0xfff It is crazy that any fucking product on the market would ever behave like that. What the fuck?!
@molly0xfff Any word on the litigation that was trying to say Section 230 didn’t protect platforms from what their own AI product says? Seems logical to me that they shouldn’t hide behind the “we’re just hosting our user’s content” defense when this AI nonsense is entirely in-house and something they claim as a differentiator compared to other platforms.
@molly0xfff Is this thing confused about "drinking" and "drinking"? but even if that, drinking water every hour would be excessive, seems like it really went off-track. If this thing is really pushing people to drink more alcool, even if they are not alcoholic, there is just no excuse to that, there is no "healthy" dose of alcohol. More is always worse.
I use google health, but didn't use the coach, it's mostly an on phone data-storage with metrics and general advice, adding a chatbot in here, while tempting, is indeed pretty risky.
@tshirtman It can be extremely dangerous, even deadly, for serious alcoholics to quit cold-turkey. Even real doctors will sometimes recommend a patient keep drinking (for example, if they're waiting to get into a detox facility, or on a taper plan). My guess is that's what the AI was picking up on.
@molly0xfff @tshirtman That kind of nuance is what makes LLMs entirely unsuitable for providing medical advice. There's no understanding behind an LLM's words. Medical advice requires understanding an individual patient's current condition and history.
@molly0xfff there has to be liability here
@molly0xfff With all due respect, I think this guy needs a guardian.
