{"id":16714,"date":"2024-11-18T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:25:41","slug":"elon-musk-asked-people-to-upload-their-health-data-x-users-obliged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16714","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.<\/p>\n

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Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot, asking for diagnoses. The reason: Elon Musk, X\u2019s owner, suggested it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely good,\u201d Musk said in a post<\/a>. The hope is that if enough users feed the A.I. their scans, it will eventually get good at interpreting them accurately. Patients could get faster results without waiting for a portal message, or use Grok as a second opinion.<\/p>\n

Some users have shared Grok\u2019s misses, like a broken clavicle that was misindentified as a dislocated shoulder. Others praised it: \u201cHad it check out my brain tumor, not bad at all,\u201d one user wrote alongside a brain scan. Some doctors have even played along, curious to test whether a chatbot could confirm their own findings.<\/p>\n

Although there\u2019s been no similar public callout from Google\u2019s Gemini or OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, people can submit medical images to those tools, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The decision to share information as sensitive as your colonoscopy results with an A.I. chatbot has alarmed some medical privacy experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very personal information, and you don\u2019t exactly know what Grok is going to do with it,\u201d said Bradley Malin, a professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University who has studied machine learning in health care.<\/p>\n

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Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot, asking for diagnoses. The reason: Elon Musk, X\u2019s owner, suggested it.\u201cThis is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely good,\u201d Musk said in a post. The hope is that if enough users feed the A.I. their scans, it will eventually get good at interpreting them accurately. Patients could get faster results without waiting for a portal message, or use Grok as a second opinion.Some users have shared Grok\u2019s misses, like a broken clavicle that was misindentified as a dislocated shoulder. Others praised it: \u201cHad it check out my brain tumor, not bad at all,\u201d one user wrote alongside a brain scan. Some doctors have even played along, curious to test whether a chatbot could confirm their own findings.Although there\u2019s been no similar public callout from Google\u2019s Gemini or OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, people can submit medical images to those tools, too.The decision to share information as sensitive as your colonoscopy results with an A.I. chatbot has alarmed some medical privacy experts.\u201cThis is very personal information, and you don\u2019t exactly know what Grok is going to do with it,\u201d said Bradley Malin, a professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University who has studied machine learning in health care.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16716,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16717,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions\/16717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}