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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by griomnib »

ec109685 wrote: post #415
dataviz1000 wrote: post #407

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Interesting. My next door neighbor ten years ago was a lawyer a couple years out of law school. He discovered that he could pour through hundreds of medical charts a day and find cases where the doctor under billed the insurance company. He would then sue the insurance company, settle, and split the profits with the doctor. More or less he was mining the charts. He would sometimes pull up next door with a half dozen…

Are you sure it was illegal? HIPPA carves out this exception for using your health records: “To pay doctors and hospitals for your health care and to help run their businesses”

This almost definitely falls under Business Associate in hipaa and is totally fine.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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lfmunoz4 wrote: post #307
crmd wrote: post #290

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There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by notatoad »

jdlyga wrote: post #414

Obviously this was a bad idea implemented poorly. They never thought about the "why" for any of this. There's real value in fictional chatbots (Character AI) though. With Character AI, you can role play and have outlandish conversations that you might never have with a real person. There's even apps like SocialAI where every profile is AI so you can experience going viral and social media stardom without sacrificing…

i would love to know more about the internal decision making that led to this release. it all just seems so weird. i can see the appeal of AI actors on social media - you get to make everybody feel more popular than they are because there's always somebody to reply to them, and you can make sure people get responses to their selfish requests that no other real user actually wants to see, without degrading the experience for any actual real people.

but why would they implement it as a limited number of obviously handmade profiles with baked-in personalities? the internet is already full of real people's accounts that are, for all intents and purposes, without personality and ephemeral. real people sign up for facebook all the time who don't expose a personality, interact with a couple posts, and then disappear. LLM chatbots could be great at that. LLM chatbots can't be real people.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by mancharface1 »

dpflan wrote: post #319
crmd wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

Interesting. Do you have any examples to share?

Agree. I'd love to see an example of this, or read more about it.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

crmd wrote: post #290
tomalaci wrote: post #186

You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

This is coming and there's a very simple fix.

Make healthcare insurance be actual insurance: as in, not a gateway to treatment conditions that are entirely lifestyle driven.

Once patients are responsible for the bill and the large middle layer admin crud is taken off the table, medical inflation almost disappears. Take this example of a for-profit facility vs non-profit hospitals [1]

Ideally this happens once environmental factors are fixed or drastically reduced so diet and lack of time are "choice-driven" instead of "needs driven" as health determinants (you do have subsidies at the lowest end, but that cannot go on forever).

https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/cash-providers-cheaper-su...

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Post by pndy »

devjab wrote: post #242
Trasmatta wrote: post #3

> Conversations with the characters quickly went sideways when some users peppered them with questions including who created and developed the AI. Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. It was a “pretty glaring omission given my identity”, the bot wrote in response to a question from the Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. This is probably tr…

I'm Scandinavian and not invested in the American culture wars and I still got a good chuckle out of how bad an idea this was. Who on earth could've thought it was a good idea to get an AI to pretend to be a black queer mother of two? I'm sure it'll piss off a lot of anti-woke people, but really, how on earth did the issues with this not become obvious for the team? I'm not sure if the AI knows who trained it (and I…

I'm baffled that they didn't even try to hide the fact these profiles are artificial but outright add that bleak gray text saying "AI managed by Meta". I mean, did we reach some checkpoint here where reality is blurred with fiction? Do we now treat these generated personas on par with real humans?

Honestly, I don't think meta can go any lower from this point in order to get the user engagement with their silly plaything that facebook has become.

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Post by rscho »

jiggawatts wrote: post #322
crmd wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

It’s so bizarre to me that this uniquely US phenomenon of for-profit-middlemen inserted into the healthcare system has resulted in an adverserial relationship between the sick person and the “healthcare provider”. I put that air quotes because insurance companies don’t actually provide health care. They provide insurance. That’s a financial product, not a medical one.

Not unique to the US. This develops to a certain extent everywhere private insurance is sold. It is a completely logical consequence of the insurance company raking in the most when selling you insurance for everything that won't happen, and deny you any coverage for stuff that will happen. At that point, it is a mystery to me why so many people still think free market theory works for healthcare.

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

tomalaci wrote: post #186

You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...

It's a funny thought on the surface, but the people working these scams are typically slaves, more or less. I'd rather go after their slavers than waste electricity to waste their time.

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Post by hapticmonkey »

jdlyga wrote: post #414

Obviously this was a bad idea implemented poorly. They never thought about the "why" for any of this. There's real value in fictional chatbots (Character AI) though. With Character AI, you can role play and have outlandish conversations that you might never have with a real person. There's even apps like SocialAI where every profile is AI so you can experience going viral and social media stardom without sacrificing…

Events like this remind me of Apple’s slide at the iPad announcement. It had street signs labeled “technology” and “liberal arts” and they discussed the intersection between the two.

It can seem like a bunch of hippie crap but it really emphasised that we need more than just technology and engineering (and business engagement metric bean counters) driving decisions.

So much incredible technology behind the scenes and for what? This shit?

We need people with more perspective and humanity in the driving seat.

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