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@Olabola833933
Elon out here basically saying ‘Just let AI be your doctor, it’s cheaper than insurance and won’t judge your WebMD binges 👀💀
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
75% Engaged
51% Positive
24% Negative
Positive
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Negative
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Neutral
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Critical Perspectives
Community concerns and opposing viewpoints
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Safety & Accuracy
Many replies stress that Grok makes clear mistakes on imaging and OCR, calling out misidentifications and “survivorship bias” in claims of infallibility. Users advise treating the system as a second set of eyes, not a final diagnosis, and warn against “confidence theater” when answers lack citations.
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Privacy & Data Commercialization
A large thread of anxiety centers on personal data — bloodwork, biometrics, even images — being stored or sold, possibly to insurers or for other uses. People fret about who controls that information and what happens if it’s leaked.
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Medical Community Pushback
Several replies report clinicians dismissing Grok’s outputs and resisting its encroachment into medical roles, arguing that lab values and context cannot be reduced to automated advice. The idea of replacing trained professionals provokes strong rejection.
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Manipulation & Power Concerns
Comments tie feeding AI with sensitive data to potential manipulation, social scoring, or misuse (from targeted persuasion to worse dystopian scenarios). Users fear AI learning people’s “weak points” and being used to influence behavior.
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Technical Limits Highlighted
Beyond medical errors, responders point out flaky sources (e.g., reliance on Wikipedia), inconsistent formatting across labs, and poor handling of simple factual queries — all undermining trust in practical use.
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Legal & Regulatory Questions
Many ask how privacy, civil law, liability, and data standards will be enforced — who’s accountable if advice harms someone, and how cross-lab inconsistencies or data breaches are handled.
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Skepticism Tempered with Humor
Alongside alarm, users respond with sarcasm and jokes, sharing funny failures and skeptical anecdotes that keep the tone partly incredulous rather than purely panicked.
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Consensus Usage Advice
The clearest practical takeaway is repeated: use Grok for pointers or red flags, but always confirm with a human expert and don’t treat its answers as definitive medical or legal judgments.
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@ScottsBaird
My Docs hate GROK. They have a natural aversion to anything it tells me and dismiss it out of hand when I question them. They twist themselves into pretzels to try to contradict Grok.
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@Santhosh__Sash
Trust Grok with your health over a doctor? 🧐
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Supporting Voices
Community members who agree with this perspective
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Many replies celebrate Grok as lifesaving and practice-changing, with multiple firsthand stories — feeding-tube reversal, near-ruptured appendix, DVT, Guillain–Barré and cancer follow-ups — credited with faster, actionable diagnoses that changed outcomes
Many replies celebrate Grok as lifesaving and practice-changing, with multiple firsthand stories — feeding-tube reversal, near-ruptured appendix, DVT, Guillain–Barré and cancer follow-ups — credited with faster, actionable diagnoses that changed outcomes.
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A large share claim Grok’s reads often match or surpass doctors in clarity and depth, and users say it frequently explains results more usefully than clinicians
A large share claim Grok’s reads often match or surpass doctors in clarity and depth, and users say it frequently explains results more usefully than clinicians.
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People emphasize that Grok makes patients more prepared for visits, letting them bring focused questions and sometimes prompt doctors to act sooner
People emphasize that Grok makes patients more prepared for visits, letting them bring focused questions and sometimes prompt doctors to act sooner.
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There’s strong enthusiasm about access and cost
users imagine better care for rural and underserved communities and significant healthcare savings if AI scales.
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Many endorse using Grok as part of a personal medical toolkit — some say they’d trust it over the existing medical-industrial complex or treat it as a “second opinion” in their pocket
Many endorse using Grok as part of a personal medical toolkit — some say they’d trust it over the existing medical-industrial complex or treat it as a “second opinion” in their pocket.
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Several replies urge caution
verify AI findings with healthcare professionals, and note privacy concerns and xAI’s guidance against uploading sensitive personal data.
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A minority express distrust of traditional medicine and welcome AI as a corrective to bias or financial incentives in healthcare, framing it as a challenge to established gatekeepers
A minority express distrust of traditional medicine and welcome AI as a corrective to bias or financial incentives in healthcare, framing it as a challenge to established gatekeepers.
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Excitement about the future runs high — commenters call this a paradigm shift in diagnostics and patient empowerment, while a few still stress that AI should augment, not replace, clinical judgment
Excitement about the future runs high — commenters call this a paradigm shift in diagnostics and patient empowerment, while a few still stress that AI should augment, not replace, clinical judgment.
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@sweetcarolinatv
ed this story before but I want people to understand the importance of it. My husband has stage four metastatic lung cancer (non smoker) that’s spread everywhere. During his last hospital stay he hadn’t been able to eat for 17 days and going in and out of consciousness. I was u
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@Dan_Brisbois
lon doing what Elon does, grabbing a sacred cow and tipping it over, Elon Musk straight up saying you can snap a photo of your bloodwork, X-rays, or MRIs, upload it to Grok, and get instant analysis that actually makes sense, no white coat mystery tour, no two-week wait for a fi
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@SleazyWeez
I've done this, and got more out of the information than I'd ever hope to get from my doctor.
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