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  "description": "Samantha Cole: Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds\n\nChatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models.\n\nI think there’s something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with the ability to deploy that information effectively.",
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  "textContent": "Samantha Cole: Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds\n\n> Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models.\n\nI think there’s something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with the ability to deploy that information effectively.",
  "title": "Memorizing the dictionary doesn’t make you a great writer",
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