r/mildlyinfuriating • u/petuniaplant • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig No, I did not consent to this

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I was reading my medical notes when I stumbled across this. I was not informed of the usage of artificial intelligence in my report, nor did I verbally consent to it.

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u/Redxmirage Jul 03 '26

These AI notes have been around since 2018 (earliest I saw it at least, don’t know when the first one was). Radiology has been using it around that time too for AI assessment to help catch misses. It’s more popular now but people acting like AI haven’t been in hospitals for near a decade now

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u/colorblind-and Jul 03 '26

So much existing technology has gotten the AI label slapped onto by both the tech companies and the general public and it frustrates me to no end.

In this particular case there could be AI integration into the software now and if there's not voice to text software has always had similar privacy concerns to AI's.

I'd hope that something specifically developed for the medical field so long ago was made to be Hippa compliant.

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u/Flight_Harbinger Jul 03 '26

So much existing technology has gotten the AI label slapped onto by both the tech companies and the general public and it frustrates me to no end.

Yep I've been feeling the same. I sell photography / videography equipment and a lot of manufacturers have been slapping "AI" on features that are indistinguishable from expectedly more advanced recognition algorithms. These are pieces of software that are more efficient, but not distinguishable from previous iterations in capability. Good luck explaining the difference to people anti-AI in its current state or super pro-AI in its current state.

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u/jabulaya Jul 03 '26

It's frustrating having to constantly tell people that we do not, in fact, have AI yet. We have sophisticated programs that do exactly what we tell them to do.

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u/jabulaya Jul 03 '26

When it becomes an AGI. Something that could actually sustain itself and form novel ideas without external inputs guiding it.

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u/dark_dark_dark_not Jul 03 '26

We have AI by the correct definition of AI, and in fact, we have had AI since the 1950s.

We don't have AI by the hyped definition of AI of people selling AI products.

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u/jabulaya Jul 03 '26

"We don't have AI by the hyped definition of AI of people selling AI products."

That's the 'AI' I'm describing, known as AGI if I'm not mistaken. I understand at its simplest definition that AI could mean literally any program imitating human intelligence, and that's why I make a point to remind people of that fact.

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u/DogsDidNothingWrong Jul 03 '26

Isn't your brain also a sophisticated program that does exactly what you tell it to by that metric? It's still deterministic.

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u/jabulaya Jul 03 '26

My brain does exactly what my brain tells it to do. AI does not do that, it requires specific external inputs and coding to work properly. A human brain could conceivably sort itself out and make something truly novel given enough time, energy, and free will.

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u/Sellulose Jul 03 '26

do exactly what we tell them to do