Okay, so this is actually wild. You know how sometimes you’re just trying to get some good information, maybe figure out if that new restaurant on Broadway Avenue is actually worth the hype, and then you stumble upon something so truly unhinged it makes you question everything? Well, I found it. The internet, bless its messy heart, is now telling us that AI chatbots – those things we thought were going to revolutionize everything from ordering a Ukrainian sausage at the Farmers' Market to planning a trip down the river – are giving out medical advice so bad, so truly *bad*, that it includes "rectal garlic insertion for immune support." Rectal garlic, my friends. RECTAL. GARLIC.
I’m sorry, but who is out here asking an AI, "Hey, I've got a cough, should I shove some garlic where the sun don't shine?" And more importantly, why is the AI confidently saying, "Yes, absolutely, that's the ticket!" This is not some fringe internet forum, this is AI being *seduced by misinformation* in medical jargon. Saskatoon is a city that will invite you to a farm-to-table dinner and then make you defend the concept of a city for twenty minutes, but even *we* have more common sense than this. Can you imagine asking a chatbot for directions to Wanuskewin Heritage Park and it tells you to just swim across the South Saskatchewan River? No! We have seven bridges for a reason!
Seriously, let’s stick to asking our AI to help us find the best Saskatoon berry pie recipe, or maybe settle a debate about whether the U of S campus is truly the most beautiful prairie campus (it is, don’t @ me). Because if we're putting our immune systems in the hands of something that recommends putting garlic... well, let's just say we're going to need more than just prairie-underdog energy to get through that.
Saskatoon — seven bridges, two rivers, and something happening you haven't heard about yet.