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Newfoundland and Labrador’s New Democratic Party is calling on the provincial government to implement “strict regulations” around the use of artificial intelligence.

“Not only is the use of AI on government reports disgusting, but it’s undermining the confidence in our government to do the work necessary to address the issues in our healthcare system, and truly throughout the province” NDP Leader Jim Dinn said in a news release Monday, in response to The Independent’s Nov. 22 story that revealed the province’s $1.6-million Health Human Resources Plan, commissioned from global consulting firm Deloitte, contained fabricated research citations likely generated by AI.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 32 points 4 days ago
[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AI should never be used to compensate for laziness, incompetence or stupidity. If you aren't capable of doing your own job without a crutch, then you shouldn't be doing that job.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But if I can charge the taxpayers the same amount but then do a half ass job for half the price and keep the difference, what's the problem?

/s

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

That's capitalism, for ya'.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got a cool concept... How about we stop subcontracting shit companies that use AI and let them go bankrupt?

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but the shit companies have bought up all the smaller, non-shit companies, leaving us with shit for options.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Then how about we establish an independent commission, fully State-funded, to do the work and to report it publicly, like we do other stuff?

Private sector obviously has gone to 💩

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Just don't hire "Toilet and Douche", they are corrupt.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

AI vendors and AI-based companies are taking advantage of an often-overlooked asymmetry in how value and risk work.

MBA brain thinks: task makes us $500, has a 1% chance of making a mistake that costs us $200. So expected value is: 500-200x0.01, or $498. So if I can use AI to do task twice as fast, it’s all upside!

Reality is: value-adds tend to be situational, and risk tends to be systemic. If you do task x2, you might not see any actual extra profit as a result — due to dependencies, diminishing returns, and maybe supply and demand, that value might just fizzle out.

But if you make a small mistake, and then someone else makes a small mistake while building on top of your work, and so on… that risk compounds quickly and spirals out of control.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Automation like this should only be for approval. Anything it thinks needs to be denied then has to go to professional humans to see what nuance is there.