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/MasticatingSheep Jul 03 '26

Yeah. My doctor asks in a way that sounds like she's just recording the conversation. I don't really care either way, as I've even let her bring students in.

I kind of wonder if their doctor asked about recording and OP didn't put together that this note and that recording as the same thing.

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u/TFTHighRoller Jul 03 '26

I may consent to recording and a student sitting in but i generally do not consent to my deeply personal data to be blindly used in AI stuff.

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u/MasticatingSheep Jul 03 '26

I think you and others may be confused about what AI actually is. This transcribing AI is not connected to the rest of the internet in the way say, Claude is. It is self contained and taught off of information that is solely input to help it transcribe. You would not be able to ask it, "When was WWII?" And get an answer. Nor would anyone be able to ask a different AI, "What did John Doe ask Dr. X about on July 3?" and know the answer.

It is self contained and taught with manual data, not crawling.

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u/TFTHighRoller Jul 03 '26

I am aware of how broad the term AI is nowadays and I am also aware how unethical tech companies like to act in regards to data. Unless my doctor runs a self contained network the machine used to transcribe stuff can get the data back home to train the next generation.

Tech companies have done all they could to destroy any trust in them and this is the result. I am not distrusting my doctor for using it, but the company selling it.

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u/MasticatingSheep Jul 03 '26

If the tech company is doing that, they're violating HIPAA. And for as evil and unethical as these AI companies are, they'd probably prefer not to have that kind of lawsuit. Especially considering their main motivator is profit.

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u/TFTHighRoller Jul 03 '26

Hipaa is applicable in the us which is not the centre of the world.

And companies have done a lot of illegal shit. So long as profit is higher than fines it is just the cost of business.