• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    14 hours ago

    I heard from a friend who does medicare data analytics at health insurance companies that when they tried to model which patients to deny it explicitly suggested never approving certain interventions for black people

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      5 hours ago

      Hold please, while I give you my genuine surprised reaction…

      prepares

      isn’t surprised.

      Huh. Guess I wasn’t surprised after all.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    How is it legal for them to give our health information to AI??? Without explicit consent?? And why are they able to access and look through it like this, when normally records are protected from this?

    I can think of several reason by the way this should be illegal:

    • AI is experimental, and this is further an experimental use of AI. Test subjects, especially medical test subjects, must be able to know if they are being experimented on and must be able to consent
    • AI adapts and “learns” from input and can be prompted to spit that data out - it is not secure for protected and private information
    • Want to double emphasize it is not a secure system for private information laws
    • AI also is an outside company and is not the government, we did not give them permission tonaccess our health data and the government themselves has no warrant or emergency need to access our healthcare data either - this isn’t a legal way to access health records
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      The short answer is there’s a good chunk of Americans on some form of Medicaid (regardless of what name it wears) and in exchange for healthcare provided by the government, they give access of their medical PII to the government because the government is their healthcare insurance provider.

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        14 minutes ago

        But that doesn’t mean any rando in the government can access anyone’s health data on a whim, legally. You have to have a reason to access it. Even just accessing date of birth is protected.

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    13 hours ago

    Although I think the quote should be:

    Yousa thinking USA people gonna die?

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    13 hours ago

    CALLED IT THE DAY CHATGPT CAME OUT TO THE PUBLIC.

    im getting sick and tired of being right all the time.

    one more thing to watch for, they are going to use AI to create custom viruses that are going to go after specific genes in the population and erradicate them like the enclave wanted to do with project purity in fallout 3 for people with mutations. using information from databases pulled from companies like 23 and me.

    autistics, ADHD, LGBTQ+, specific races, and other “less preferable” genetic markers will be targeted. with those in power sharing those markers being vaccinated well in advance.

    tinfoil hat coming off now.