Matt

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Thanks for writing this @aphyr.com.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

Apart from everything by else, the circular citations are so obvious in hindsight. I introduced people to his newsletter and now feel very silly.

Thank you for being a better voice; it must get frustrating to have to repeat the same things so often.

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

Shippo-tsunagi

The “One Book“ and “One Pundit“ theories continue to be validated! 🙂

It really is insane. I charged ours day before yesterday for what I’m pretty sure is the second time the entire time we’ve had it. Could be off by one but still.

It is interesting how differently we think - to me, what you’ve quoted from Bjarnson is self-evident! And while I appreciate the “Worse Is Better“ essay (ty for reminding me of it!) I’m not sure I take the same point from it. Ty for the food for thought. Ultimately we may just have different values.

Personally, I think this all sounds very exciting for whoever is on call when it breaks in production.

Reasonable enough, thanks for elaborating. There’s never been a consensus on what makes software teams productive, and LLMs have only made it less clear. I’m glad your personal connections have given you insight, I just don’t have that clarity myself. I suppose we’ll all see what is built!

Anecdotally from a colleague, apparently the hope is that the code doesn’t have to be maintainable, since when it breaks you’ll use the Text Emitter to debug it too. And when requirements change you just regenerate the entire thing from scratch instead of trying to modify anything. 🙃

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

As far as what you’ve personally observed, fair is fair, and if you feel like it helps you then fine. But regarding the post you linked: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin... from @baldurbjarnason.com is one of several thorough responses.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

“…it is absolutely imperative … that we put "AI" in context: that we talk about how it has been developed, how it is funded, how it is implemented; that we talk about who is pushing for this technology and how they imagine the future they're so eagerly engineering.”

“Against the protection of stocking frames. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

> This failure can’t be separated from the staggering social, cultural, and ecological costs associated with simply using these services

This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death.

So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.