Anyone want to place bets on how much of their “AI” medical advice was just medical students and low cost doctors overseas answering questions?
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ogmios@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
tech-laden “AI doctor’s office,”
For those wondering what they did,
seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why would they use real doctors at all?
ripcord@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why would there be appointments at all…?
dustyData@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most likely, as with all AI as a service startups. After a certain mass of users the models can’t keep up. So to reduce the response times they pay offshore firms to have real people answer the chat. Unfortunately, doctors willing to answer a chat all day are way less numerous than cheap labor.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Could be that the AI is just vaporware they use to get funding from VCs while effectively being a normal clinic.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
oh so nothing