Adele Buck on Mythryl: “If ever there was journalistic malpractice, this is it. "Helped…”

If ever there was journalistic malpractice, this is it. "Helped [her] taper" is basically framing a bot's output as medical advice. That's disgusting already. The "devastating consequences" the lede alludes to? SHE DIED. That's triply disgusting because the article saves that for the end.

Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social

Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

nytimes.comChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences (Gift Article)The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors, advice that came with devastating consequences.

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