A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell

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iLoveOncall · 2026-01 · Strong recommendation

Since there are a lot of positive comments at the top (not surprising given the astroturfing on HN), please watch this video from ChubbyEmu, a real doctor, about a case study from someone who self-diagnosed using AI: [VIDEO] For every positive experience there are many more that are negative, if not life threatening or simply deadly.

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Imustaskforhelp · 2026-01 · Strong recommendation

xD I am not even kidding but there is a guy who viewed twitter, found that table salt Aka sodium chloride is "bad for health" and the medical study recommends that if thats the case then they should less the consumption But he ends up asking chatgpt and it somehow recommends him the idea of sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride and it really ended up having him have so many hallucinations and so many other problems that the list goes on. I found this from a video, definitely worth a watch [VIDEO] A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell

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Imustaskforhelp · 2026-03 · Criticism

> Average people seem to think they are fucking awesome Average people who wants to go home from work and game are fucking angry at AI for raising the ram prices. Average person who wants to own the stuff and not have things on cloud are fucking angry at AI for raising prices 5 times in such a short period of time. Have you talked to an average person and how they use AI? They use it as a glorified no-code editor and search engine. A search engine which can make some pretty wrong cases which can literally lead to near death like scenarios all while being completely trust me bro attitude. A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell: [VIDEO] Normal people use AI to confide in it secrets, seek therapy somehow. And the same AI generates AI pyschosis. Now coming to tech industry: Tech industry is worried about that such levels of democratization just means that nobody is going to pay for them yet at the same time, we will see projects who are completely created by AI seek money. It's this weird mush where if you are a genuine guy who just loved computing, who loved tinkering, yeah we're offloading that capability to AI I have seen this even more and more with as agents want to get more autonomous or we are letting them be. The projects generated feel hollow to me. I don't consider myself a full fledged programmer right now and AI did supercharge me and made me have projects. Nowadays, it just feels like prompt ---> (Time) --> Output. It just feels hollow and AI

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