Ask Your LLM — Medical Ads, Advice, and the Boundary Between Tool and Profession
“Ask your doctor if it’s right for you.” Anyone who has watched American television knows the sentence by heart. It sounds like caution, but read it slowly and it’s a script: here is a feeling you may not have noticed, here is a product that addresses it, and here is a professional whose role in the transaction is to ratify or veto a decision you have already half-made. The ad doesn’t sell a drug. It sells a diagnosis and rents a doctor’s authority to close the deal. …