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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The technology is actually kind of great it's just that evil people are using it to do evil things it feels like.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 102 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Only in 'Murica would life-saving developments be used to deny people treatment so that some rich cunts can accumulate even more wealth

It's a broken country, and I can't wait to see it fall

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Broken implies that this wasn’t the goal.

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[–] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The better question is why does their employer have access to their private medical data

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

My understanding is that this isn't what happened.

Meta laid off a bunch of employees. Meta claims they used an AI to gauge employees' productivity as a basis for who they laid off. The employees are accusing Meta of laying off employees who took too much medical leave.

[–] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

That is more plausible, though still discriminatory

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[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

so... nothing to do with any sort of AI for medical purposes? well now the post just seems kinda silly now

[–] abrake@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago (27 children)

Alright, if you look at this story from a more reputable source (Reuters), it's quite a bit different. Meta isn't accused of using AI with people's medical information to make early diagnoses and lay them off. Instead,

According to the complaint, Meta used a number of internal AI-assisted systems to score and rank employees ⁠on a ​termination list. Those included "Metamate," a large language model assistant; an employee-trained "second ​brain" that tracked workers' communications and documents; and a productivity score drawn from scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history, according ​to the lawsuit.

The 26 plaintiffs, who ⁠filed the lawsuit anonymously, are accusing Meta of violating federal and state laws that ban discrimination or retaliation against workers who have disabilities, take medical leave or are ​pregnant. They also claim that Meta failed to test its AI systems for ​bias in ⁠violation of recently adopted California and New York City laws.

So it's still shitty workplace surveillance and discrimination but not the same kind of surveillance and discrimination alleged in the Twitter posts. Meta is using AI to try to rank workers' productivity (on a bunch of shitty metrics) in a way that may discriminate against people with disabilities or who take medical leave or who are pregnant.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

"Technology" under capitalism is a regressive force for violence, theft, and control.

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[–] btsax@reddthat.com 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The Supreme Court just ruled that it's not racism unless someone specifically points at an action and says "I'd like to do that racism, please!" and so I expect them to use that precedent to target people with disabilities. "They didn't say it out loud, and even though a policy specifically harmed the disabled, it doesn't count"

Edit. Louisiana v Callais

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago

Ah you see your honour it can't be illegal, because it's actually more profitable this way, and so conform to the natural order of the brotherhood of the ever rising line (forever may it rise, straight and true)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

The SC just went to Congress yesterday to beg for money for security. I wonder why they need security if they are doing their jobs?......

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago

This is basically it and how I see it working at places I've worked at. HR gathers information about you and then uses it to fire you when firing you is necessary....when you're no longer needed. So for example if you're an assembly worker and your product is end of production, you're done. Now engineering goes to work on a new trinket and you gotta wait until they are done. But when engineering is done, they're fucked. Now you're king because there's production to be done while engineering scrambles to figure out a new project that management wants to work on.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Reason 748 on why the US health system is fucked up.

Anywhere else in the world, this saves lives.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How are employers getting a hold of these results?

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Easy. The insurer raises the rates because of a “pre-diagnosis” then the employer either switches plans or layoffs people. I don’t know how granular the layoffs would be. Were those 10k layoffs at Microsoft AI related or “pre-diagnosis.” Occam’s Razor says AI, but we don’t know for sure.

[–] thatGuyWithGlasses@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Oh thank god I live in a country with universal Healthcare and not in some dystopian syndicalist hellhole. This scenario is unthinkable where I live, AI in medicine is seen here as useful ...

[–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

guarantee all that awesome data being shared that is saving lives will be being used for evil in non single payer countries for sure.

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

Oh look, psychopath CEOs are helping people die faster. And we still do nothing.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

"Our most pessimistic theories were not bad enough"

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Funny that this isnt even "AI". This is image and pattern recognition software that's been used in medicine for years and years. The AI part is that it's scraping all your medical data together into a single RAG so they can use it to fuck you over as efficiently as possible in the name of making more money.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pattern recognition was “AI” until LLM took over almost all meaning of the phrase. One of the reasons corporations were supposed to store everything (storage is cheap) was to feed pattern recognition models.

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[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

In general people don't really hate AI itself but the absolute shitcocks in charge of it and their methods of using it.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Allways this, better than "Fuck AI" is "Fuck AI from big corps" (and big greedy corps too)

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like zuck needs to have irreversible health issues~

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

He'll spent billions to treat himself and will still do this kind of shit.
Always remember these people consider themselves above the crowd and think it's completely normal they're treated differently.

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So innocent. Think they could treat lead in head and neck? Or, if somehow someone manages to kidnap them, could like, break some Geneva conventions and make them write new ones, all while he's alive and in pains only know to hell/ guantanamo. I yearn to hear his screams of agony.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not what they mean.

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[–] brunox@feddit.cl 3 points 4 days ago

I believe it was more irreversible, like a severe cerebral lead poisoning.

The world would be a better place if he were diagnosed with Mangione Syndrome. I heard a health insurance CEO was diagnosed with it in late 2024, and died very shortly after

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[–] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the movie Gattaca. A future world where your path in life is heavily influenced based on your genes.

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[–] Eggman@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This is truly sad. If this technology is going to work like claimed in the future and diagnosed early breast cancer in just 5% of people it could help save 32000 people a year and help a lot of people who don't die but have to go though a horrible treatment process.

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Lives that can be saved via early treatments, instead used to profile people based on their health conditions, disabilities and other factors ismorbidly sickening, We truly do think that Neural Learning Model can be a strong tool as a data sorting algorithm in health and science, but cannot give us answers itself, only point out things we can’t see

[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not even greed, isn't this just cruelty at this point?

Dealing with an early diagnosis should be significantly cheaper and more beneficial. Your paying customer lives longer to continue to pay you more for less investment. Right?

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

For insurance its best if you never need it. Your house burns down or you crash you car. These things don't happen all the time to everyone.

Healthcare happens all the time and we will all need it at some point. Joining it to employment or something financiual you can lose is a disaster waiting to happen.

Death panels are in full force they are just being replaced by AI.

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