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It seems inevitable in the future I won't have a choice whether my info (however personal) gets sucked up into some corporate database via AI chatbots. Even if I were to refuse to use one personally, I have no control whether the nurse I talk to is just typing what I tell them into a chatbot on their laptop.

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Don't be distracted by today's excitement over chatbots. Companies are out there consolidating this data right now through traditional methods. Oracle, for example, has been saying the quiet part out loud.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2022/06/26/larry-elliso...

FWIW, healthcare has strong regulations around data. If your provider uses an approved chatbot (vs using public ChatGPT), there is more or less a guarantee that your data won't be sucked up by a corp.

I'd rather my doctor use a negotiated and approved model/tool than an unapproved one.

> there is more or less a guarantee that your data won't be sucked up by a corp

Not true. "The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes the conditions under which protected health information may be used or disclosed by covered entities for research purposes" [1]. Your de-identified data can be sucked up by a corp for research purposes. You are protected because your identity will be removed before data is used for research.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/r...

Sure, I was emphasizing on the "however personal" part in the original comment. I am ok if my de-identified data is used for research.

Or even the doctor. They could consult with a chatbot rather than other doctors in refining their own opinion. I think that is more likely in developed countries, where this is more likely going to be a tool to be used by doctors directly, a more efficient way to sift through 10s if thousands if maybe relevant published studies and literature.

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