How it started / how it's going

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@josh @ricci So nostalgic

[chillicampari@layer8.space]

@aud "not computing, please repeat." @ricci @ErickaSimone

[qurlyjoe@mstdn.social]

@raphaelmorgan
Obviously whoever owns the system will tailor prescription recommendations for their financial benefit. Capitalism 101.
@ricci

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@ricci #AI stands for ‘#ArtificialIdiot.’ Can it be sued for medical malpractice? 🤔

[vex@kolektiva.social]

@ricci I'm bitter! They're in our face openly buying users by holding their health hostage, clearly intent on having humans pay the cost wherever their digital colonialism machine doesn't work. People are waiting for a line to be crossed that doesn't exist to fight back while the omnipresent digital prison is being openly built.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@chillicampari @aud @ricci lol I’m screaming.

[carl@chaos.social]

@ricci this is hilarious!

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@carl yeah until you consider that people are supposed to take (for legal reasons not actually) medical advice from it

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@ChemicalEyeGuy see: "accountability sink"

[profg@mastodon.acm.org]

@ricci

🤣🤣🤡🤡🤣🤣

[gperson@social.linux.pizza]

@ricci I wonder if I can get AI to write me a prescription for opioids despite not taking them in the first place.

Now THAT will open up a whole new can of worms 👀

[regehr@mastodon.social]

@dan @ricci it is real, it's where we get the snakes for PhD defenses. also ask for the punchcard-- once you've rented 10 adders you get a king cobra.

[tedmielczarek@mastodon.social]

@aburka @ricci @jonny yeah wow unrelated here's a Reddit comment from 7 years ago that uses the exact same analogy: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7vvds2/comment/dtvdtio/

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@tedmielczarek @aburka @jonny oh gee what a coincidence, I'm sure

[dan@discuss.systems]

@regehr @ricci I was never allowed to have a pet as a child but my parents would occasionally rent me a hamster or something from the pet library* and I think they had snakes too. Probably not venomous though.

*this sounds so ridiculous I had to look it up recently to make sure it wasn’t just something I had hallucinated, but no, it really was real

[wollman@mastodon.social]

@regehr @dan @ricci As opposed to the architecture department where renting ten adders gets you a discount on an FPU?

[regehr@mastodon.social]

@dan @ricci hahaha I also often have this same feeling about my childhood

[regehr@mastodon.social]

@wollman @dan @ricci no there you get a python

[regehr@mastodon.social]

@dan @ricci I don't really watch stuff like Stranger Things, but I did watch the first season and felt like it was sort of validating, like yayyy the early 80s weren't actually a fever dream

[gwozniak@discuss.systems]

@regehr @dan @ricci I watch the shows so I can find out what other people did.