Laws like this are great for these companies. This is how they will justify removing access to useful information and putting it behind paywalls. But oh your need a prescription so now the insurance companies are involved (spoiler: they already are) and so you don’t even have access to pay out the nose for medical information.

Then when Google search has been completely replaced with AI, you won’t even be able to search for medical information.

Healthcare companies aren’t about to provide anything for free.

LLMs and chatbots should not be giving medical advice. You are afraid of the private healthcare system, not the lack of access to the most janky bandaid fix for its failures.

The line between medical advice and personal research is pretty freaking gray, so banning medical advice. Does that also ban talking to llms about anything that is medical adjacent?

Does medical adjacent mean personal disabilities? Drug related interests? Pet health?

…etc

It’s a slippery slope and we don’t need to be sliding down it

People are so vicious over this tech they would rather have disabled poor people with cancer suffer and die under inadequate care than do anything about the inadequate care. Ban the tech, but let this all go on.

If you are perfectly able and well, you can ignore all advice that isn’t perfect.

The perspective they seem to lack is frightening. The empathy they refuse to engage is massive. This is able-ism.

Tech companies are bad, tech will cure cancer.

“Would rather have disabled people with cancer suffer and die…”

My guy, that’s not a lack of LLM access, it’s a completely fucked US healthcare system that forces people onto the internet because they can’t get what they need from the state, you goofy-ass weirdo.

Well yes of course but also restricting access to information doesn’t exactly help much either.