>proud Black queer momma
It's first time I hear about it, why is "Black" capitalised in that profile name?
Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
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#522I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it serve? What possibly comes out of this that is positive?
>I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?"
Remember when in 2013, 2015 and in 2020 Facebook was caught faking/inflating ad-view numbers so they would charge their customers more? Now AI viewing an ad is a feature and you want to pay for it.
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I hate the journalists pretending that ML is regurgitating facts instead of just random tokens. The ML model doesn't know who programmed it and can't know because that wasn't in the training data.
> I hate the journalists pretending that ML is regurgitating facts instead of just random tokens. They aren't claiming that what the AI said was fact. It seems your hate comes from lack of understanding.
It seems that the lack of understanding comes from hate.
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Yes, but you've got to balance that against the equivalent human processing time. Meatbags are notoriously carbon-intensive to feed.
Humans use tiny amounts of energy compared to even a smartphone. And they consume the vast majority of that energy regardless of whether they're lounging in bed or pouring over medical records.
A human burns say 2000 kcal / day. That's about 2.3kW hours / day.
An iPhone 16 pro battery appears to have about 18 watt hours. So approximately 100x less then a human uses.
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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...
The lawyer looking over the records was probably fine. Him paying his neighbor to help him look through them is more questionable.
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#527>proud Black queer momma It's first time I hear about it, why is "Black" capitalised in that profile name?
It's a commonly-accepted way to refer to "Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense", particularly African-American culture. See for example the AP's style guide: https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566... and also the relevant wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans#Terminology
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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.
> 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…
Living in America, I have never met anyone who doesn't think our health care system is a complete mess. That includes doctors, nurses, people who work in HR, and people on both sides of the political spectrum. There is however disagreement about how it should be fixed. But from what I've seen that disagreement isn't about whether people who don't get insurance from their employer "cheated the system", it's about whether the system should be controlled by the state or private companies.
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Microsoft tried this ages ago with their Tay chatbot and found how quickly it went bad.
I’d forgotten about this - it was wild. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35902104
Yes the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article is Tay.
And we have come back full circle
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#530Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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…
You can praise/blame the puritans for this weird idea.