If I disagree with CoPilot, it's me that's wrong

[thornbury]

DH is utterly obsessed with CoPilot. He now seems paralysed to make decisions unless CoPilot validates them first. Everything must be put to CoPilot, and if I (with my 58 years of life experience and two Masters degrees) disagree with the output, it is me that's wrong. He currently has a rash, it could be shingles or a reaction to medication, but CoPilot says it's due to sun exposure/sun lotion allergy, therefore my views are inaccurate.

He will ask me something and then check my response with CoPilot, or ask me something and tell me that CoPilot has a different view. He presents CoPilot output as valid opinion, without admitting that the expert he is supposedly quoting is actually CoPilot. It's driving me nuts.

I’m a Dr and peoples bloody AI diagnoses are becoming such a problem. No one can tell you their actual symptoms these days without supplying what AI says they mean. People are confidently diagnosing themselves with all manner of very rare diseases and demanding reams of tests and treatments on that basis. Before anyone links to that Welsh lady who did have a rare genetic disorder diagnosed by AI that was news because it’s the exception to the rule.
Common things are common.
AI is massive fuel to the flames of health anxiety and medicalisation of normal life.
Tell him to get a proper human being to look at the rash and ask the right questions to put it in a medical context instead.

Well at least it's keeping him away from actual real live women.

Tell him to ask CoPilot how reliable it is

On a side note, CoPilot failed me today, apologised for being unable to properly complete the task.
I had two diagrams showing flow lines throughout network systems. I wanted it to combine the common elements of the two diagrams and to colour the flow lines of number one in red / amber and the flow lines of number two in green / blue
It apologised that it could not perform the full task and offered to do what it was able to do.

I accepted that option with the intention of then tweaking prompts to work some way to get what I was after

What it gave me was one combined image, with two separate diagrams, it had redrawn both as almost identical to the original but jumbled half the text annotations into gibberish, and its solution to not being able to colour the flow lines was to draw a red line straight through the top one and a green line straight through the bottom one

Ask him to ask Copilot who is mostly likely to be right - an intelligent educated human being or a non-thinking machine?

@Shrinkhole he says he's found it very helpful in explaining medical terms, interpreting reports, etc. His oncologist is the best in the hospital and he lets CoPilot explain things he should be asking her.

Of all the AIs to defer to he chose Copilot? I’d be pissed too, copilot is rubbish 😂

Well it’s fair enough to ask it ‘what is stage 4 metastatic disease’ or something like that but not ‘is this chemotherapy regime right for me?’ and then imagine that it knows better than an experienced oncologist. I have patients asking for medications that don’t exist in the UK because their AI info is US based or it just agrees with what they want to hear and then they are reinforced in what might be a wrong opinion. Eg if you input a ton of ASD symptoms in it’ll say you have ASD but it is not assessing the persistence, pervasiveness, disruption of those symptoms or any evidence to the contrary that you will not be adding as you don’t want to hear it. Then the person has a real assessment, is not diagnosed and the assessors are wrong cos ChatGP says I am autistic.