Dr. Karthik V. Sarma

if what you're doing is you're having some symptoms, you're telling ChatGPT about it, that there's a risk that ChatGPT is going to tell you either, hey, nothing's wrong when something is wrong, or hey, something is wrong when in fact, actually this is a normal aspect of life.

I think it would depend entirely on how you describe your symptoms.

And one of the challenges is you're not a doctor.

You don't know what the right words describe what's going on.

You don't know what the right questions are.

And so you don't have enough context necessarily to know what to say to get an accurate diagnosis.

You know, as a psychiatrist, it's my job to know what to ask and how to interpret what you're saying.

Chachi BT, even though it has a lot of baked-in knowledge about psychiatry and mental health, it might not ask the right questions.

It might take what you say more on faith with an assumption that you know if you say, I'm feeling really depressed, that you know that you're clinically depressed, when in fact, you're not sure.

That's what you're asking about.

I agree.

And I think, you know, the horse is out of the barn on this one.

People are using ChatGPT every day for all these things.

What I think we really need to do is better understand how do things like ChatGPT interact with problems of mental health?

That might be explicitly like maybe someone goes to ChatGPT and types in

hey, I'm feeling really sad and sometimes I have very dark thoughts, what do I do?

Or it could be something more implicit where somebody is asking Chachapiki the same completely unrelated medical question, like I have this pain in my stomach, what's wrong?

But asking it 15 times a day.

Those are both signs that something might be going on with mental health, but as you can see, the presentation of that is very different.

A doctor is trained to look at both of those situations and analyze them the same way, but that's not how Chachapiki works.