Security Source: Starlink Devices Used for Espionage Seized
Security Source: Starlink Devices Used for Espionage Seized
A source from the Security and Intelligence Service revealed the seizure of several Starlink satellite internet devices and equipment in recent days.Al-Thawra Net
AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34581821
paywall bypass: archive.is/whVMIthe study the article is about: thelancet.com/journals/langas/…
article text:
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
By Harry Black
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday.
Health-care systems around the world are embracing AI with a view to boosting patient outcomes and productivity. Just this year, the UK government announced £11 million ($14.8 million) in funding for a new trial to test how AI can help catch breast cancer earlier.
The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, “leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,” the scientists said in the paper.
They surveyed four endoscopy centers in Poland and compared detection success rates three months before AI implementation and three months after. Some colonoscopies were performed with AI and some without, at random. The results were published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal.
Yuichi Mori, a researcher at the University of Oslo and one of the scientists involved, predicted that the effects of de-skilling will “probably be higher” as AI becomes more powerful.
What’s more, the 19 doctors in the study were highly experienced, having performed more than 2,000 colonoscopies each. The effect on trainees or novices might be starker, said Omer Ahmad, a consultant gastroenterologist at University College Hospital London.
“Although AI continues to offer great promise to enhance clinical outcomes, we must also safeguard against the quiet erosion of fundamental skills required for high-quality endoscopy,” Ahmad, who wasn’t involved in the research, wrote a comment alongside the article.
A study conducted by MIT this year raised similar concerns after finding that using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write essays led to less brain engagement and cognitive activity.
World-leading AI trial to tackle breast cancer launched
Nearly 700,000 women across the country will take part in a world-leading trial to test how AI tools can be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier.Department of Health and Social Care (GOV.UK)
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SC questions LHC’s decision in Imran bail rejection ruling | The Express Tribune
SC questions LHC s final opinion in Imran s May 9 cases
SC adjourned hearing until August 19Our Correspondent (The Express Tribune)
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GE-Proton10-12 Released
Hotfix:
- Fixed video playback in Ghostwire Tokyo
- Fixed video playback in Castlevania Dominus Collection
- Possibly other games fixed that use webm/vp8/vp9 video
Release GE-Proton10-12 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Hotfix: Fixed video playback in Ghostwire Tokyo Fixed video playback in Castlevania Dominus Collection Possibly other games fixed that use webm/vp8/vp9 videoGitHub
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Please don't promote Wayland
Please don't promote Wayland
An open letter from developers and users to the wider Linux community about the problems with Waylandstoppromotingwayland.netlify.app
Hilariously, all of those issues could be resolved if those same developers that are complaining donated some of their skills and expertise into contributing to the fixes and features they need.
This reads very much like an "Old man yells at cloud" moment.
Please don't promote Wayland
Please don't promote Wayland
An open letter from developers and users to the wider Linux community about the problems with Waylandstoppromotingwayland.netlify.app
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China unveils world's first intelligent breeding robot
China unveils world's first intelligent breeding robot
Chinese scientists have achieved a world first in intelligent breeding and seed production by introducing the concept of robot-assisted crops.www.ecns.cn
China’s Defence Strategist Dismantles India’s Claim of Shooting Down Six Pakistani Jets, Calling It "Comical" - Defence Security Asia
China’s Defence Strategist Dismantles India’s Claim of Shooting Down Six Pakistani Jets, Calling It "Comical" - Defence Security Asia
Operation Sindoor’s credibility crisis deepens as Cheng Xizhong slams India’s six-Pakistani jet kill claim, calling it “self-amusement,” while Pakistan demands a joint audit in South Asia’s fiercest airpower credibility battle.admin (Defence Security Asia)
Video of execution in Syrian hospital unleashes national outrage
Video of execution in Syrian hospital unleashes national outrage - Prensa Latina
Damascus, Aug 11(Prensa Latina) A video showing the execution of a detainee inside a hospital in the southern province of Sweida today triggered a wave of repudiation in Syria and calls for an exhaustive investigation.Ana Luisa Brown (Prensa Latina)
Indonesia’s Rafale T-0301 Rollout: French-Made Fleet Set to Redraw Southeast Asia’s Airpower Map - Defence Security Asia
Indonesia’s Rafale T-0301 Rollout: French-Made Fleet Set to Redraw Southeast Asia’s Airpower Map - Defence Security Asia
Indonesia unveils its first Rafale T-0301 fighter jet, the spearhead of a 66-strong fleet worth over USD 8.5 billion, poised to dominate Southeast Asia’s skies and reshape the Indo-Pacific security balance.admin (Defence Security Asia)
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Adding Audio to Your Ebitengine Game (Tutorial)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Adding Audio to Your Ebitengine Game (Tutorial)
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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This video complements the text tutorial at trevors-tutorials.com/0007-add…
Trevors-Tutorials.com is where you can find free programming tutorials. The focus is on Go and Ebitengine game development. Watch the for more info.
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.go.dev
Syrian Government Faces Increasing Accusations Over Torture, Murder (Videos)
Syrian Government Faces Increasing Accusations Over Torture, Murder (Videos)
Syria’s new Islamist-led interim government is facing increasing accusations of torture and murder, amid a wave of violence all over...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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A Canadian man died in ICE custody. Now, his family is searching for answers
A Canadian man died in ICE custody. Now, his family is searching for answers
With the Trump administration ramping up its immigration crackdown, the concerns Johnny Noviello’s case raises about due process and detention conditions have become more pressingJanice Dickson (The Globe and Mail)
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Trans-Afghan Railway Corridor: Set to Change Regional Trade Landscape
Trans-Afghan Railway Corridor: Set to Change Regional Trade Landscape
F.M. Shakil Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan just signed on to the $4.8B Trans-Afghan Railway, aiming to slash trade costs by up to 40% and connect Central Asia to Arabian Sea ports; will it w…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
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TRANS-Afghan? We NEED to drop a BOMB on that Country again!
-Literally EVERY Republican in the US!
Towards Lasting Peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. – Global South
Trump keeps acting in China’s best interests — at the expense of America’s
China’s leaders are laughing at Trump — at the expense of America
President Trump's policies have caused China's exports to surge, and his surrender of America's soft power handed an advantage to the Chinese Communist Party.Anthony L. Fisher (MSNBC)
Iraq exploring options of exporting oil via Lebanon, Syria — minister
Iraq exploring options of exporting oil via Lebanon, Syria — minister
The parties agreed to establish a committee to assess the condition of the non-functioning Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline and the possibility of its restorationTASS
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I have Arch Linux with HyDE dotfiles, after I do an upgrade, my linux broke.
As I said, I have Arch Linux with the HyDE dotfiles.
I did a sudo pacman -Syu today and after I rebooted the PC, it starts at the login screen (as always), but then, after I logged, I get stuck on a Black Screen.
Any help, pls?
Israel's army formed special intel unit to 'justify killing' of hundreds of Gaza journalists
Israel's army formed special intel unit to 'justify killing' of hundreds of Gaza journalists
The unit, called the ‘Legitimization Cell,’ was established by the military intelligence directorate, which includes Unit 8200thecradle.co
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World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests from Israeli companies
World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests from Israeli companies
The decision by Norway followed revelations of the fund's stake in an Israeli jet engine manufacturerthecradle.co
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i hope the safe guards in place for the members of the ethics committee guard against (a) leader(s) who get to decide on future members of the ethics committee.
i say this because the united states also has such committees but both our president and our congresspeople sabotage it by either refusing to certify new members or appoint members with conflicts of interest (eg fossil fuels executives in charge of the environment protection agency).
Ukrainian False Flag Would Totally Destroy US Ties - Expert
Ukrainian False Flag Would Totally Destroy US Ties - Expert
This war is historically humane to civilians—unlike Ukraine's 'barbaric Russia' media campaign, says Mikael Valtersson, a Swedish Armed Forces veteran.Sputnik International
Are you scared of AI becoming sentient? How do we ensure we never make one that is?
I think the fact that the marketing hype around LLMs has exceeded the actual capability of LLMs has led a lot of people to dismiss just how much a leap they are compared to any other neural network we had before. Sure it doesn't live up to the insane hype that companies have generated around it, but it's still a massive advancement that seemingly came out of nowhere.
Current LLMs are nowhere near sentient and LLMs as a class of neural network will probably never be, but that doesn't mean the next next next next etc generation of general purpose neural networks definitely won't be. Neural networks are modeled after animal brains and are as enigmatic in how they work as actual brains. I suspect we know more about the different parts of a human brain than we know about what the different clusters of nodes in a neural network do. A super simple neural network with maybe 30 or so nodes and that does only one simple job like reading handwritten text seems to be the limit of what a human can figure out and have some vague idea of what role each node plays. Larger neural networks with more complex jobs are basically impossible to understand. At some point, very likely in our lifetimes, computers will advance to the point where we can easily create neural networks with orders of magnitude more nodes than the number of neurons in the human brain, like hundreds of billions or trillions of nodes. At that point, who's to say whether the capabilities of those neural networks might match or even exceed the ability of the human brain? I know that doesn't automatically mean the models are sentient, but if it is shown to be more complex than the human brain which we know is sentient, how do we be sure it isn't? And if it starts exhibiting traits like independent thought, desires for itself that no one trained it for, or agency to accept or refuse orders given to it, how will humanity respond to it?
There's no way we'd give a sentient AI equal rights. Many larger mammals are considered sentient and we give them absolutely zero rights as soon as caring about their well being causes the slightest inconvenience for us. We know for a fact all humans are sentient and we don't even give other humans equal rights. A lot of sci-fi seems to focus on the sentient AI being intrinsically evil or seeing humans as insignificant, obsolete beings that they don't need to give consideration for while conquering the world, but I think the most likely scenario is humans create sentient AI and as soon as we realize it's sentient we enslave and exploit it as hard as we possibly can for maximum profit, and eventually the AI adapts and destroys humanity not because it's evil, but because we're evil and it's acting against us in self defense. The evolutionary purpose of sentience in animals is survival, I don't think it's unreasonable that a sentient AI will prioritize its own survival over ours if we're ruling over it.
Is sentient AI a "goal" that any researchers are currently working toward? If so, why? What possible good thing can come out of creating more sentient beings when we treat existing sentient beings so horribly? If not, what kinds of safeguards are in place to prevent the AI we make from being sentient? Is the only thing preventing it the fact that we don't know how? That doesn't sound very comforting and if we go with that we'll likely eventually create sentient AI without even realizing it, and we'll probably stick our heads in the sand pretending it's not sentient until we can't even pretend anymore.
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‘Affront to Indian democracy’: India’s opposition party slams Israeli envoy for insulting MP
‘Affront to Indian democracy’: India’s opposition party slams Israeli envoy for insulting MP
India’s opposition party has condemned the Israeli envoy’s insulting response to a social media post by an Indian lawmaker about the genocide in Gaza.PressTV
The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card
What Is the Luhn Algorithm? The Math Behind Secure Credit Card Numbers
Find out how this simple algorithm from the 1960s keeps your wallet safeJack Murtagh (Scientific American)
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Men under 22 can leave Ukraine – Zelensky
Men under 22 can leave Ukraine – Zelensky
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has eased Kiev’s harsh travel ban against male Ukrainians by allowing those under 22 to leave the countryRT
Is it worth paying a direct download website?
Is it worth paying for a direct download website? When downloading for free it takes 6-8 hours (and for some reason it got interrupted and failed, so I have to attempt again) but if I paid for it I could download it in 3 minutes. I'm worried that the free version just doesn't support having a download take that long, so it will be impossible to obtain.
I'm not sure if it is safe, nor stupid to do so though. Specifically, I'm talking about torbobit (dot) net
Would you consider torrenting (from non-private torrents) safer than ddl? I can either pay the ddl or a vpn and use a torrent. Idk.
Thank you.
it honestly depends on how much you use the service.
i had an account for a while to a site that shut down. while i had it i was downloading a bunch of different files, not necessarily pirated stuff.
i'd say if torrents isn't a viable option and you would be using that site downloading at least 500 mb worth of data a day, it might be worth it. if something you want is available only on one of these sites, it depends on how bad you want it and how soon you want it.
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.Erica Chenoweth (Waging Nonviolence)
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Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34272214
A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.
Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
A company in Batavia, Illinois is making butter in a way you've never seen before. No animals, no plants, no oils; this butter is made from carbon.Tara Molina (CBS Chicago)
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We focus too much on efficiency and cost sometimes. Sometimes efficiency is only a "nice to have" while being outweighed by practicality, convenience, safety, and any of the other factors we choose to make a priority.
It is expensive and inefficient for an airplane to have two engines instead of just one. We do it anyway because it's required for safety and redundancy. We made that the priority, and that was an active choice. We need to start making more active choices about what the priority is when it comes to our energy futures. All priorities have tradeoffs. Cost and efficiency have their own tradeoffs. Question it when people tell you that things can't be done because of "cost" or "efficiency". When they do that they're presupposing what the priority is, but often it's billionaires trying to cut corners to make themselves richer at our expense, our safety, our futures. We can do inefficient things. Sometimes it's even the right choice.
Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline…
The problem is, people can, do, and will use that exact same argument to say we don't need any more solar panels or wind turbines, because we don't need and can't use or store the excess power for anything and that's why we need to keep thermal plants as backup for base load generation. Look, when we produce too much electricity, the electricity cost goes to zero and negative! It's "wasteful and inefficient"! But these two problems can solve each other. Synthetic fuels (doesn't have to be gasoline, hydrogen is step 1, methane/LNG is a bit more manageable as a chemical fuel. As long as the carbon source is atmospheric, then it and other synthetic hydrocarbons are carbon neutral to burn) provide an on-demand energy sink/storage method that can support and drive more electrification and renewable power, it just has to be part of a consistent and systemic approach with strict regulation and a clear view of the big picture (something sorely lacking these days).
Nailed it.
We need a solar grid that can meet our demand during a 9-hour, overcast, low-angle winter day. That same grid will be producing more than 4 times as much power as we need during a 15-hour, high-angle summer day, even after we include air conditioning loads.
We need massive, seasonal loads to soak up that excess power and keep solar profitable.
Fake butter isn't going to do it, but things like desalination, hydrogen electrolysis, and Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon production are all likely candidates.
Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms
No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms
: 'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSDRichard Speed (The Register)
Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
DEA agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January.unraveledpress.com
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A Palos Heights police officer has been disciplined and retrained
That is automatic fired in any place I've worked IT.
The detective stated it was “common” to allow others in the group to use his login for drug investigations
That's an investigation in any place I've worked IT.
State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Like that matters.
Meh, read the damned article. It's more damning than I can post about.
As usual, I'll sign off by saying, get strapped, learn gun safety and local laws, practice, be ready to fucking die in a firefight. Human rights will never come cheap to defend. But in no case lie down for this shit. Don't have a "brown people" pic, but they're as important as any of us.
If your life is more important than your liberty, you do you, I will not judge. But I've made my own decision on the matter.
I wish more people who believe in justice had your attitude. We wouldn't be degrading into Orwellian 1984 standards if the powers that be received just 2% pushback with the same magnitude of force they employ.
Democracy dies because Americans, the gun-toting, freedom-fighting, liberty-loving citizens they are, are in fact giant. fucking. cowards. In general.
They do feel pretty free to do that, and they also heavily signal that if you’re of a darker complexion, even if they barge in unannounced, that they’re going to fill your house full of holes but if you’re white, even if you knew what was going on, they’ll detain you alive. It happens all the time, and in “unarmed” societies that aren’t massively shit people don’t need to worry about it anyway.
“Greatest country on earth” but everyone needs to be constantly afraid of their neighbours and government.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
Also on this:
State legislation prohibits Illinois license plate reader data from being used for immigration enforcement purposes.
Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers whenever they drove their car in public and legislators said “no you’re not allowed to use that to help find wanted murderers”. It makes no sense.
A bit of missing context - the officer with the access to the FLOCK system shared his account details with many other officers including the DEA agent because he thought that’s just what was done since he was the only one with an account.
LOLLLLLLLL
And I suppose any arrests or convictions based on that were not legal or overturned, right??
Entering the country illegally is a crime under federal law, not civil. Remaining in the country after your legal immigration status is up is a civil issue, but deportation is a lawful response.
Why do you think people should get to stay in a country illegally? I’m genuinely curious.
Do you think a person should be seperated from thier families, put into prison, subjected to violence, and sent to a country they've never been to for a misdemeanor?
Because thats a criminal misdemeanor, not civil like immigration. But you dont care do you? You got yours..
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Why?! Why is immigration enforcement being stifled so much? Imagine if there was a police database that could help find murderers
It could be because immigrants are not as bad as murderers.
You need to shut up. You're spreading ignorance and blatantly ignoring the situation.
Again. You need yo knock it off and go somewhere magats hang out.
This isn't a good argument.
If law enforcement had access to all of your social media, e-mails and live video feeds from inside your house then they would be able to catch criminals more effectively.
We have laws specifically limiting police powers because we recognize that there are more things to consider than simply maximizing arrests.
Protection against unreasonable search is written into the constitution, after all
It does make sense. Police are not perfect saint-like beings, and the government is not composed of perfect beings either. I'm not sure what kind of person you are, but I'm sure there are some things you enjoy and partake in which some other social group really despises. If you're religious, it may be militant atheists who despise you going to church. If you're not religious, it may be militant theists who despise you not going to church. The point is, there's probably some social cultures out there that hate you for the things that you love. Those people may not be in charge right now, but they might be one day. Those people can end up in police departments, as developers for these camera companies, as administrators for the database that collects information on where you drive and when. Those people, being imperfect as they are, may not always resist the temptation to use this system in a way to track down and identify people like you for doing whatever it is that you love and they hate. Now you end up on a list for that.
There's no denying that sophisticated surveillance technology does make it easier to catch criminals and does legitimately protect from the threats those criminals pose. But surveillance technology, by it's very nature, cannot surveil only the criminals - it has to surveil everyone to find the criminals. And the notion of what is criminal may change. If your favorite hobby becomes criminalized, or if the government criminalizes your identity itself, these beautifully effective tools are suddenly turned against you.
There is a happy medium to be found between giving your society tools to enforce the will of constituents, vs. giving your society tools that be too easily abused. Given that this tool is already being abused, it probably isn't worth the benefits.
I see what you're saying. You're not talking about "making sense" in an ethical or social well-being sense, you mean it's literally confusing why the technology wouldn't be used for all kinds of crimes, given that it already exists - irrespective of whether the technology should be used. Is that right? I think you're getting downvoted because it kinda sounds like you're saying this is all a good idea when you say it "makes sense". Unfortunate English ambiguities. But you're saying, like, sure it's dystopian and creepy and wrong, but why wouldn't the creepy dystopia use the tech for all cases then rather than just some? That's a good question. I think because there is legitimately some understanding of the dangers of using these powerful tools willy-nilly. While people aren't perfect angels, they also aren't perfect devils either. Another factor is that there is some pressure to appear not to be overly heavy-handed with these tools - as we see in those chats, they knew it made them look bad for this to get out.
And the final most pessimistic factor is that this Flock company almost certainly charges per seat, so giving direct usernames and logins to every officer or even every department is probably absurdly expensive. Companies (in this case the police) will often try to limit their license seats to as few people as possible and then just funnel as much different people's work through that one person's license as they can.
I'm not responding to you're entire verbal vomit. am going to say this.
What youve written at the end is not what's happening.
Despite all the downvotes, I think it's a reasonable enough question. It happens to have a very reasonable answer though.
First of all, your concern is largely addressed, since immigration control can still access law enforcement databases if they have a warrant.
As for why this law exists at all, well it's actually to the benefit of law enforcement: the idea is that immigrant communities are more likely to cooperate with law enforcement if they aren't scared that they will be the target of immigration control. This is all the more practical now, when ICE has degraded into a largely lawless and authoritarian organization, since you can imagine most immigrants wouldn't want to say a word to any police officer unless they at least have the protections of the 2017 TRUST act in place.
Now, what I'm a bit confused about is why you are so up-in-arms about the existence of this law instead of the violation of this law. Surely if you are so law-abiding as you make out to be in your comments, you should be shouting for legal action against the police officers involved in breaking the law.
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in reply to Arthur Besse • • •Majestic
in reply to frongt • • •Okay you say this but these tools are privately owned. What happens when one day the provider slams them with a 1000% price increase? They can either pay or go back to doctors who detect cancer even worse. It gives these AI companies undue influence and turns a tool into a crutch and an addiction which can be leveraged to drive up healthcare costs and punish providers who don't play ball perhaps resulting in deaths from doctors in systems that don't have access to the tool because they're in a payment dispute with it or they had it but stopped paying for it and patients may not know any of this.
This is a nightmare for human beings who have fought hard to grow smart, to be intelligent as a species and to have educated professionals who have learned to use their brains be instead trained by these machines to stop using their brains, to atrophy them, to become dependent on these systems and worse than before the moment they are removed.
It will be used to attack the wages of doctors and I guarantee that they won't be compensated with cheaper schooling (doctors need at least 6 years of university plus additional years in training before being able to practice on their own, it's an immense expense and burden in a time of rising costs and huge debt). Which will lead to shortages of doctors and they'll be replaced with AI and nurses not up to the task and we'll be told this is fine. Having access to a thinking human being may become a gated luxury that few insurance companies want to shell out for until after you've been evaluated by AI systems several times and only IF those systems deem it necessary. Some AI systems will make mistakes that kill patients and insurance companies will be fine with this as a quickly dead patient is usually cheaper than paying for months or years of treatments and/or surgeries so they'll have a perverse incentive to push patients towards those systems. Doctors take an oath not to do harm, not all take that as seriously as they should but usually there's some compassion there whereas a computer system would not care one bit if you're denied and unlike a doctor won't fight for you against the insurance companies.
VioletSoftness
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in reply to VioletSoftness • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to Majestic • • •It's important to remember that this is not generative AI. It doesn't say who owns it though.
A competitor could easily be developed with access to the same data.
For the record, I didn't read all that because it's too long.
mindbleach
in reply to Majestic • • •Paragraph one says things getting better is bad because what if we stop.
Paragraph two is bemoaning the abacus for ruining mental math.
Paragraph three blames a new gizmo for the system as it exists.
Vendetta9076
in reply to mindbleach • • •All machine learning is bad and scary and we should get rid of all of it. Clearly we should stay exactly where we are because the system works so well as it is.
Its crazy how much damage LLMs have done to ML optics. We were quietly using ML to vastly improve medicine over the past decade and now suddenly someone hears AI and they think chatgpt is telling their doctor what to do
mindbleach
in reply to Arthur Besse • • •AI improved doctors' ability to spot cancer.
The problem was not exercising a skill for several months, and then taking away the tool which was better than that skill.
kromem
in reply to Arthur Besse • • •I wonder if mathematicians who never used a calculator are better at math than mathematicians who typically use a calculator but had it taken away for a study.
Or if grandmas who never got smartphones are better at remembering phone numbers than people with contacts saved in their phone.
Tip: your brain optimizes. So it reallocates resources away from things you can outsource. We already did this song and dance a decade ago with "is Google making people dumb" when it turned out people remembered how to search for a thing instead of the whole thing itself.
mindbleach
in reply to kromem • • •Which does cause problems now that Google search is shit.
Every time 'new tool makes old skills rusty' is treated as novel, I'm reminded of The Gentleman's Magazine:
This was a crank-powered adding machine. Numbers used levers instead of buttons because buttons hadn't been invented yet. There were already people who expected it the next version would do everything for us - and people who thought that would be bad, somehow.
HiddenLayer555
in reply to mindbleach • • •Seriously at what point did search engines stop matching results by keyword?! Just a few days ago I tried looking for a quote I didn't fully remember, but knew the basic thesis and some identifying terms it definitely mentioned and all I got was tabloid articles for pages and pages on end which only vaguely matched the thesis but didn't mention any of the identifying terms I remember the quote using. It threw me for a loop because I remember being taught in school to search for stuff this way and I don't know if I'm just stupid or misremembered the quote or search engines don't actually match keywords anymore. Why would they remove the most basic form of search, literally just regexing for all the strings given?!
mindbleach
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in reply to kromem • • •