I fear for us

I truly do

oh dear

his finger locked up and chat gpt told him not to go to the er but to his pcp or a hand specialist

Which might be what the ER would tell him to do, after addressing the urgent problem...

But you kinda can't skip straight to the follow up!

seeing as how ai is basically just predictive text tuned up to 11 my guess on that is actually that theres likely a lot of text online about not going to the ER if you dont really have to, because cost/not flooding the system/etc

I'd guess it's a bit of both, regurgitating the advice about not going to the ER if you can avoid it, plus spitting in a bit of advice for less urgent joint problems or what the ER would suggest as follow up instructions.

no chat gpt said it was an emergency, but specifically that it was not an er emergency

orz

cause ~that makes sense~

And this is where people need to learn that chatbots don't understand the information they're aggregating...

They can and will present conflicting claims as though both are true!