Lol, I'm from a country with healthcare so I just go to the doctor and my X-ray is free. Parking is also redeemable because of my job!
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Ok, if anyone actually breaks their hand, take a picture and do this, cause it would be pretty funny if they make an X-ray that actually looks busted.
I broke a finger a bit over a year ago and it ended up swolen and purple for about a day. It was a reddish pink and only slightly swollen the following couple of days
I have an old xray from when I splintered my ulna (forarm). I'm torn, a part of me wants to see what happens, but a bigger part of me wants to never upload anything medical related to these platforms
I think it probably would identify a break when you provide the x ray to it.
What I want to see is if you take a normal picture of a broken arm or hand or finger or whatever and ask it for an x ray, if it's fake x-ray image it gives you will show a broken bone.
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So uh... something weird happened... I asked it to take an xray of my hand and it... returned this image...
Which is clearly wrong. It must be the reason why everyone says it generates low quality slop... right? Haha... ha...
User name does not check out.
Guys... I think this might be a Velociraptor's account.
Don't be ridiculous, everybody knows ~~we~~ er... velociraptors went extinct 65 million years ago.
Nervous human-ish noises
Clever girl
Had me worried until you made those nervous human noises. Really don't know why I was concerned.
Nervous human noises are the most calming and reassuring noises!
if he is to be trusted, then he's probably a lizard-man -> lizard-people are real -> zuck is a lizard-man confirmed
Wait a minute.... are you a velociraptor?!?!
Preposterous! Of course I'm not! It says it in my username: AbsolutelyNOTaVelociraptor
Hello fellow human! I too enjoy the dexterity of opposable thumbs!
Hmmm... That does sound like something a human would say, but the hairs on my neck are standing up. Maybe a thunderstorm is coming?
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ChatGPT knows when it's being asked to identify a hotdog and doesn't get paid for that business
Not exactly programmer but... The stupidity of some people is impressive.
I mean this is gotta be obvious bait.
Blue check mark means the user already drank the kool-aid. No reason to assume they wouldn't go back for a refill.
It's just as likely its an engagement farming account, maybe even a bot.
Tell me there's a difference
(Excepting the existential realization that the stupider a person is, the more easily they're used as a tool, of course, and keeping them in line and on track is often simpler than tech solutions.)
Nowadays it's hard to be sure. Considering the average American's education and who they voted for....twice... Why shan't I believe weird "news" like this...
Poe's Law in action.
Sadly yes...pretty much :)
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Jokes aside, as much as I hate AI slop this could actually be a freaking awesome use for pattern recognition that might actually improve healthcare.
But, I'm a US American so for us it costs a stupid amount of money to GET the X-Ray after waiting for an appointment, and then you play one-way phone tag waiting another month(s) for the analysis of the x-ray.
(Bonus points if you wait 6 months and pay $150-whatever for "I dunno looks fine to me.")
I dunno in a functioning society with a decent doctor:patient ratio (is there such a thing?) maybe this wouldn't be necessary, but over here for most things we're practically on our own anyway so the more DIY options the better.
Shout-out to urgent cares though. If you actually broke something they usually get you scanned and remedied pretty fast. I had a thoroughly good ouch-I-think-my-toe-broke (it did) experience with urgent care.
Yeah AI (not necessarily LLMs though) have been used to great effect for medical uses like that. It's a shame how most of the good work coming out of the AI/ML field gets overshadowed by LLMs
Global problem probably.
Here in Eastern Europe if you have the money you go to private clinics and for the most part you will get the care you need but even in paid ones the good doctors have pretty long wait times. And you're paying ~100 eur for 1 consultation.
What country? I got a lung xray the same week I was admitted into the hospital and it was all in a public and free hospital.
Wow I did the same 2 days ago and it's incredible how my hand xray is identical (not similar) to the one of the guy who posted this!1!
Won't post post mine for privacy reasons
Glad you found your bone brother
I hope this is satire 👀
Unfortunately a lot of satire turns to reality these days. The Onion has a lot of work keeping ahead of the craziness.
It's actually quite terrifying that we cannot say it's 100% satire.
An instance of Poe's law.
And in full disclosure, I had actually forgotten the name of that and had to look it up, which from an outside perspective might also look like an instance of it.
I always get that and Cunningham's mixed up. But the good news is it always looks like an intentional use of Cunningham's Law if I do.
I always assume the person with the Super Mario World cartoon series avatar is joking in any situation. It saves a lot of stress.
I can get similar results without the ethical fallout of using AI just by holding my hand up to the sun.
Scandinavians: 🫤
no you can't. you'll fail because you'll see actual traces of your bones. That's something completely different.
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Hundreds of thousands for an x-ray? Just get GROK to do it. Can also do fake CT scans
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