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PSA: You shouldn’t upload your medical images to AI chatbots


Security and privacy advocates have long warned that sensitive medical data can be used to train AI models, and can expose personal data down the line.

Folks are frequently turning to generative AI chatbots, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, to ask questions about their medical concerns and to better understand their health. And most recently, since October, users on social media site X have been encouraged to upload their X-rays, MRIs, and PET scans to the platform’s AI chatbot Grok to help interpret their results. People have found their own private medical records in AI training data sets — and that means anybody else can, including healthcare providers, potential future employers, or government agencies.

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