TL;DR: My doctor sent me a detailed AI generated infographic of my symptoms which contained my full name and multiple illustrations of a character with my likeness.
This is the same doctor I complained about weeks ago in the different post.
What I forgot to mention was that at the end of that same consultation, my doctor told me they would send me an infographic explaining the symptoms I had described to her. While she was telling me this, she was typing on her phone. I expected a generic medical infographic that one might find on the internet and that explains the symptoms of specific ailments. Something like the one below:
However, I was shocked to discover when I got home that the infographic, which was sent over WhatsApp, contained my name and multiples images of a character with my quasi-exact likeness in different positions. This is how I discovered that my doctor uses AI.
I’m using this AI infographic below that I found online to make my point.
This was the final straw and why I intend to have a serious talk with her about privacy at our next consultation.
HOW I KNOW IT WAS AI
I have little doubt that the infographic was created with AI. If my doctor were a graphic designer, which I’m sure she is not, I could believe it possible that she could create an infographic within hours from scratch. But she is not a graphic designer.
Also at our last consultation, I was expecting her to reveal the results of a test I had taken the week prior. To my surprise, she had not reviewed the results yet and literally looked at them in front of me for the first time while I sat silently. It was very uncomfortable because I was nervous for days about getting bad news.
All this is to illustrate that my doctor seems to be the kind of person that is so busy that she does not have time to review test results she has received days in advance. Hence, she does not have the time nor the skills to manually create infographics for patients, which means she almost certainly used AI.
I am so upset. This is the final strike.
The first was that her medical forms did not contain any privacy policy, which, to my understanding, is mandatory by law.
The second was the discovery that she uses Gmail and WhatsApp to communicate with patients and doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal.
The third was the use of AI by putting my full name and symptoms into some LLM.
I am preparing for our next meeting for that serious talk.