Frustrating post. This gives rightful ammunition to the calls of "LLMs need to be avoided for anything medical". Even though the issue is that they're asking it to interpret images. They need to be avoided for that, but that doesn't say much about their medical accuracy outside of image interpretation.
It would already be a huge benefit to 90% of people worldwide if the very first part of most hospital visits would be outsourced to frontier-level LLMs. Yet this kind of misuse just gives the medical industry a stick to beat that idea into the ground.
Oh well, I'm sure there will be at least a few countries that will indeed embrace frontier models for initial diagnostic medical purposes. Maybe medical tourism destinations. But it's unfortunate for those who can't afford the trip.
It would already be a huge benefit to 90% of people worldwide if the very first part of most hospital visits would be outsourced to frontier-level LLMs. Yet this kind of misuse just gives the medical industry a stick to beat that idea into the ground.
Oh well, I'm sure there will be at least a few countries that will indeed embrace frontier models for initial diagnostic medical purposes. Maybe medical tourism destinations. But it's unfortunate for those who can't afford the trip.