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• IratePirate@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Precisely. From Cory Doctorow’s latest, very insightful essay on AI, where he talks about AI replacing 9 out of 10 radiologists:

  “And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop.’ It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”

  This is a reverse centaur, and it’s a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it’s what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink.” The radiologist’s job isn’t really to oversee the AI’s work, it’s to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.

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  • kimara@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s fair to compare LLM code generation to machine vision in this way. These very different "AI"s. Not necessarily disagreeing with Doctorow, but this is an important distinction.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How the machines work does not matter. The situation is using a machine to replace human expertise while ensuring a human still takes responsibility for things that human is not responsible for. It is not the owning class who is at risk for their machines mistakes, it is the owning classes wage slaves who are at risk.

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      • kimara@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My understanding is that the tumor detecting machine vision is generally thought useful in addition to the radiologist’s expertise. It basically outputs “yes”, “maybe”, and “no”, which is more expertise respecting than generating somewhere thereabouts code, which the coder has to (now) validate.

        This is why I wouldn’t equate these tools. LLM code generation is marketed to do much more than machine vision for tumor detection.

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    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The kind of AI doesn’t matter with this situation. Hell, It could be a magic talking rock™ and it change nothing of Mismanagement using a person to avoid blaming their shiny and expensive new toy.

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    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “this is an important distinction”

      it really isn’t

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