xAI wants to know your symptoms :)
Is it common for people to do that? I've had such problems with long context windows that I start a new chat on every topic change. I'd be particularly concerned about such corruption when exploring such an urgent, painful problem.
It’s made me want a long chat just to understand whether there’s something meaningfully different about the experience.
Ultimately, effectively diagnosing patients from descriptions is impossible, because two can give the same description, where one has a mild condition and the other serious. More tests would resolve most ambiguity, but most ERs are too overworked, so you only get more tests if you really advocate for yourself (and/or are rich). A stomach bug can have nearly the same symptoms as the initial stages of appendicitis, and Grok (allegedly) told OP he needs to advocate for a CT.
I do see an issue, where LLMs tell too many people they have a serious condition and must go to the ER and order unnecessary tests, where a doctor would say to those people "you're fine" and they really are fine. People would end up anxious and angry at doctors over nothing, and ERs would end up overwhelmed with so many spurious tests and requests, that they would miss necessary ones. I say "would" but this situation has already started, except it's Google that is telling people to panic. Ultimately, there are too many people and not enough doctors and equipment (and too many tests may itself be unhealthy), so people who may have serious conditions aren't tested for them. I don't know the solution, but do want to point out, with people saying LLMs will replace mass sections of the workforce; why don't we as a society train more nurses and doctors?