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

Post by AnarchismIsCool » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 5:47 AM UTC

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #448

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.

Post by lionkor » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

tonymet wrote: post #395

lionkor wrote: post #99

I don't like that some people, esp at larger companies, think that groups with disadvantages in today's world are cutesy adorable things to play make-believe with.

I also find this tacky, but it does fit into AI fairness. Their goal is to offset lack of in-vivo representation of blacks by over-representing them in virtual venues. It's less creepy in search result ranking , text & image LLMs. but now that they are personifying the characters, the uncanny valley really stands out. I think your sentiment applies well to the general AI fairness strategy

Post by refulgentis » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 6:05 AM UTC

dataviz1000 wrote: post #407

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…

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…

Post by tsimionescu » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 6:15 AM UTC

miki123211 wrote: post #472

beezlebroxxxxxx wrote: post #332

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> That’s a financial product, not a medical one. It often goes unsaid, but America, on a cultural and political level, is really ideologically fixated on a distinction between working and non-working individuals, and, in a far deeper sense, whether an individual "deserves" healthcare or not. This makes access to healthcare intricately connected to class, wealth, and income, in America. That's why access to healthcare…

Be aware that in many single-payer systems, insurance is also tied to working (or unemployment / retirement / pensions). In my opinion, this is actually the reason for why we have so little innovation in Europe. Mandatory, single-payer insurance very significantly raises the cost to be self-employed / have a sole proprietorship, which you practically need to run any side project that you want to eventually make money…

Post by hattmall » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 6:20 AM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #476

hattmall wrote: post #429

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I'm sure you could offer the Japanese dentist 10% of what the procedure would cost in the US and they would do it in one trip. It cost about 25% of US prices to fly to Costa Rica, stay at a resort, and get the procedure done in a top notch facility. And that's if you just need 1 root canal and crown. If you need even more done the savings move closer to 90%. And that is a really nice places. You could drive to Mexico…

My dental work in Cancun was under $30K including flights from Seattle and 10 days at a higher end hotel (Westin), for work I was quoted up to $65K for in the US.