Bengaluru tech CEO’s ChatGPT MRI analysis goes viral, users react

A Bengaluru CEO has highlighted the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. This comes after Deepak Shenoy, founder and CEO of fintech firm Capitalmind, used ChatGPT to analyse his MRI report and receive personalised advice. Shenoy took to social media platform X (earlier Twitter) to share the results of how the AI chatbot identified a knee issue from his MRI scan and cautioned him against performing deep squats. This incident sparked a discussion online about the potential for AI to provide valuable insights into personal health and assist in preventative care.


In the post, Shenoy wrote: “Just found out from the ChatGPT analysis of my MRI report that I should stop doing deep squats. Very interesting because I was slowly training to do exactly that.”
This comes after another social media user last month claimed that ChatGPT's medical capabilities helped him diagnose a life-threatening illness. In a Reddit post, the user reported experiencing extreme soreness after a light workout and, upon consulting ChatGPT, was advised to seek urgent medical care.
The latest post has gone viral with over 64,000 views and hundreds of likes. Several users also commented on the post and some even got replies from Shenoy.

Commenting on the post, one user wrote: “Squats and deadlifts are pretty harmfull especially for 30+ people. Plenty of other workouts and and machine controlled exercises to to event injuries.”
“Arey no, they are not "pretty harmful". There is too much misinformation on the internet,” Shenoy said replying to the comment.

Another user asked: “Please explain why this recommendation came through? What exactly was the problem statement?”
“I had a troubled knee. Doc suggested MRI. I put the images and report to it...have a displaced knee cap, likely a sports injury, and in its analysis it said avoid deep squats. I will meet doc anyhow but I found it interesting cos I was training for deep squats recently,” Shenoy explained.

Meanwhile, a third user suggested: “No problem, you can do half squats. As we age, we have to maintain the balance between risk and reward of any work out. To keep knees, hip and core healthy there are other exercises which will strain less.”
“Agreed. That's my only takeaway, i'm not taking medical advise from it. Just that the deep squat thing didn't occur to me,” Shenoy said in reply.