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

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

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Post by griomnib »

dataviz1000 wrote: post #580
lelanthran wrote: post #540

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> The lawyer looking over the records was probably fine. Him paying his neighbor to help him look through them is more questionable. I don't think so. The "paying" part is important - the neighbour becomes an employee for the duration of the work, which is fine, as then there's a contract between the employer and employee which includes, even if only implicitly, that the employers data is not to be exfiltrated. If he…

If there is anything true in this article "What Are The Requirements For Storing Physical HIPAA Documents"[0], laws were broken. But, I'm not a lawyer, what do I know? [0 https://www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com/blog/what... ]

There was one case where the HHS levied a fine on somebody leaving a stack of boxes on the street. If they are under lock and key it isn’t an issue.

And yes, I think the lawyer does know more than you.

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Post by miki123211 »

xp84 wrote: post #506
miki123211 wrote: post #472

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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…

I don’t get it, why is a self-employed person paying so much more than others for single payer healthcare where you are? That sounds exactly like the USA where those not employed as a normal full-time employee pay the most for equivalent insurance, so people here definitely do stay at their regular jobs instead of quitting to found a startup. Insurance outside of those group plans is even more expensive than the alre…

Because healthcare is often paid per "working relationship", so if you work for a company and are doing something on the side, you have to pay twice, and the second fee comes out of your pocket.

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

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Post by int_19h »

notavalleyman wrote: post #563
int_19h wrote: post #477

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What they're saying is that the odds of such a combo are far less than 1 in 28 IRL.

How did you determine that?

I'm not OP and I have no idea what the actual odds are. But, well, only 15% of Americans are black to start with, and obviously only half of those are women - and at that point we're already down to 1 in 14. So, unless every other black woman is a queer mom, there's no way it's 1 in 28.

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Post by FireBeyond »

hattmall wrote: post #499
FireBeyond wrote: post #476

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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.

Honestly that seems high but I can see Cancun being a lot more expensive because people are comfortable going there.

The actual dental work was $23K, so about 35% of the US quotes.

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Post by tonymet »

lionkor wrote: post #493
tonymet wrote: post #395

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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

That ends up pretending that there isn't an issue, though, when real (not AI) representation really IS an issue. Completely not acceptable.

you're confusing the issue and the solution

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Post by josephg »

nradov wrote: post #467
josephg wrote: post #417

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I live in Australia, and I don’t pay for private health insurance. Last year after travelling to Egypt I ended up in hospital with some gut related issue. I was let straight in from the emergency room. The doctors were great. I stayed overnight in one of the wards hooked up to machines and all that. I was discharged the next day. I didn’t pay a cent. I didn’t even see a bill. I don’t think they made one. I keep heari…

Pretty much all developed countries do fairly well on rapid access to emergency care. The queues are more of an issue with elective care. Socialized healthcare systems generally impose artificial supply limits to hold down costs, which is why we often see affluent Canadians come to the USA as medical tourists to skip the queue for certain procedures like MRI scans. While socialized systems might be better overall, th…

> Pretty much all developed countries do fairly well on rapid access to emergency care.

I was talking to a taxi driver in SF a few years ago. He said he was in a car accident once, and his car rolled and flipped upside down. The police & an ambulance showed up. Even though he seemed mostly ok they still wanted take him to hospital. But he couldn't afford the ambulance or the hospital - without health insurance, it would have bankrupted him. So he told them all to get lost.

In telling the story, he got kind of angry about it - I think he was mad how pushy the police and ambulance people were about the whole thing.

Thats vaguely horrifying to me. A man who was just in a car accident should never be put in a situation like this. If you're wealthy in america, yeah - you get top notch medical treatment. But I'm not sure I'd call that a successful system for emergency care.

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Post by nradov »

josephg wrote: post #586
nradov wrote: post #467

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Pretty much all developed countries do fairly well on rapid access to emergency care. The queues are more of an issue with elective care. Socialized healthcare systems generally impose artificial supply limits to hold down costs, which is why we often see affluent Canadians come to the USA as medical tourists to skip the queue for certain procedures like MRI scans. While socialized systems might be better overall, th…

> Pretty much all developed countries do fairly well on rapid access to emergency care. I was talking to a taxi driver in SF a few years ago. He said he was in a car accident once, and his car rolled and flipped upside down. The police & an ambulance showed up. Even though he seemed mostly ok they still wanted take him to hospital. But he couldn't afford the ambulance or the hospital - without health insurance, it wo…

I'm not claiming it's successful, just that people can generally get rapid access to high quality emergency medical care. Paying for it afterwards is a separate issue, and changes are needed there.

The No Surprises Act did give many consumers significant protection against excessive ER bills.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...

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

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Post by martin82 »

Why did they have AI profiles to begin with?

How did they sit in a meeting and somehow concluded that more idiotic worthless content - the very problem that has effectively already killed facebook years ago - would solve anything at all?

These people get multi million dollar salaries, yes?

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

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Post by notavalleyman »

int_19h wrote: post #583
notavalleyman wrote: post #563

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How did you determine that?

I'm not OP and I have no idea what the actual odds are. But, well, only 15% of Americans are black to start with, and obviously only half of those are women - and at that point we're already down to 1 in 14. So, unless every other black woman is a queer mom, there's no way it's 1 in 28.

If you were trying to mimic a distribution of Instagram users, and you rolled the dice 28 times, it's not unreasonable that this combination of traits could be expected one twenty eighth of the time.

This is birthday paradox logic, not census logic

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