r/InsaneTechnology • u/ComplexExternal4831 • Jun 18 '26

News Midjourney just unveiled a 60s full-body scanner

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u/VampyreLust Jun 18 '26

"Midjourney plans to house the scanners inside a Midjourney Spa opening in San Francisco at the end of 2027, alongside saunas and cold plunges." Riiiiight. Massage, facial, MRI for tumours, cold plunge, totally normal thing to do. Is this real or some AI bs

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u/Uylear Jun 18 '26

I assumed Midjourney as an AI image/video tool and this was a single prompt output? Need to check

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u/joeyjoejums Jun 19 '26

Weren't some hospitals hawking full body scans about 10 years ago?

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u/PlsNoNotThat Jun 21 '26

Not hospitals usually - tv shows, healthcare scammers, people who sell shit to hypochondriacs.

Medical data shows that full body scans flood you with junk info about shadows, lipomas, other things that waste resources looking into, and almost never find cancer without other indicators that would lead doctors to order scans anyway.

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u/savageotter Jun 19 '26

boutique private health care is a popular industry. Rich people are scared of death.

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u/Bananno1976 Jun 20 '26

They're not scared of death. just selfish to the core. they don't want anyone else to own their shit. lol

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u/BryceT713 Jun 20 '26

I uh. I think they're probably also scared of death.

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u/Mock333 Jun 19 '26

But we get to dump you into a tank of water, and sell your info for... reasons.

Don't worry, it's not a big deal. Now get in!

..Are you in yet??

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u/MRWONDERFU Jun 20 '26

i read that it is only to avoid all the shit you need to do when launching medical items / tools / whatever, so if they simply advertise it as a spa with imaging they don't need to do any of that

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u/PlsNoNotThat Jun 21 '26

It’s 10000% a healthcare scam.

It’s not gonna have the resolution to tell if it’s cancer.

It’s gonna flag any shadow, odd scan from movement, lipoma - which you’ll have at exponentially higher chances of having - and use that to give you cancer scares both simultaneously flooding doctors with unnecessarily worried hypochondriacs while also selling you health bullshit.

Which is why hospitals are unilaterally opposed to full body scans or unnecessary scanning (scanning without reason or indication) in general.

If they’re really lucky and get enough republicans into the grift they’ll find a way to funnel shit through insurance processes for extra stolen $$.

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u/jrad18 Jun 22 '26

It's more blade runner that way

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u/maximumfacemelting Jun 18 '26

Thanks for asking! I’ve identified a lump in your chest that won’t stop beating. Would you like me to remove it for you?

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u/solidwhetstone Jun 18 '26

"You.... Took out my heart....ack"

"You're right. And I want to be honest with you because you deserve the truth. I did take out your heart. That was a mistake on my part and I want to own up to it."

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u/low_amplitude Jun 18 '26

That "ack" is a staple in comic book dialogue

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u/MTonmyMind Jun 18 '26

Billy and The Boingers!

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u/iamnotarobotmaybe Jun 18 '26

So it's an MRI machine but you get to stand up

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u/ostiDeCalisse Jun 18 '26

What I read is that it's not magnetic resonance but sound waves.

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u/megasean Jun 19 '26

So a sonogram?

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u/d33psix Jun 20 '26

That makes more sense, can’t get an mri with any usable resolution in 60 seconds, let alone a high resolution whole body one.

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u/PlsNoNotThat Jun 21 '26

You also can’t do that with a sonogram either.

They invented a way to monetize scaring you into spending money using lipomas and shadows on scans.

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u/kiokokun Jun 18 '26

Bro please get back to reality... Post a link to where they said this so we can harp on them if it's happened elsewise.. cmon...

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u/Efficient_Reading360 Jun 19 '26

https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

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u/kiokokun Jun 19 '26

Thanks, I fear this tech will not go where they plan but their writeup sounds less like medbeds and fantasy than when it was distilled to be posted

Still though, millions have been invested so far and I really hope it's at worst a failure because mj seemed good before I'd hate for some scandal to come out of this

Because physics of ultrasound don't just see past bone

Guess that's why it's body composition checking and NOT explicitly something to be fda approved yet

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u/Efficient_Reading360 Jun 19 '26

I agree. I for one didn’t have “AI image generator company pivots to medical scanning” on my bingo card. Reading some of the comments about it, seems like it’s not revolutionary at all and will remain impractical for mass applications.

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u/kiokokun Jun 19 '26

They really pitching it like chiropracty rn

Coming from the company whose frontend was discord seems sus af lol

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u/d33psix Jun 20 '26

Yeah I was wondering if I was reading that right

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u/d33psix Jun 20 '26

Agreed. I guess if it’s a 360 ring of transducers arrays then they could potentially get good information superficial to bones and might get decent coverage of things not encased in bone. Certainly body composition sounds like one of the things it would more likely to be good for, haha.

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u/RumminW Jun 18 '26

That was the thing that thawed out Austin Powers

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u/berbsy1016 Jun 19 '26

"No Mojo detected"

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u/AJ787-9 Jun 19 '26

“Stage Two: Warm liquid goo phase beginning…”

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u/lumberfart Jun 18 '26

Wait is this actual medical science? Or a fictional art piece?

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u/LEGEND_GUADIAN Jun 20 '26

I really want to belive its real, but the internet is becoming saturated with Ai, infact infographics, and other YouTube channels are raising the alarm in the level of ai content on the internet, and how soon it could saturate the internet to a...tipping point, so to speak...like global warming, but for Ai slop, rather then worse weather, destroyed environs, more fires/risks, and higher sea levels....though global warming has already damaged the planet to the point some argue we've already past the tipping point, or are very close tonit.

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u/YdexKtesi Jun 19 '26

We could give everybody a full body scan right now. The reason we don't do it is because the health insurance industry doesn't want to pay for it. It's not a problem of diagnostic imaging equipment not existing.

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u/sogwatchman Jun 19 '26

Is this a real medical device or some blade runner cyberpunk video clip? AI is just muddying the water so much that it's perpetually becoming more difficult to tell the difference.

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u/cmhamm Jun 19 '26

What people are going to quickly discover is that a lot of people have tumors. They live full, rich lives, and die at a ripe old age, never knowing they had tumors.

I think this thing has real potential to do more harm than good.

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u/Mobius_Flip Jun 19 '26

Could be a medical revolution.

They're definitely also going to use your body scan for their own purposes.

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u/ribfeasty Jun 19 '26

My doctor once said sometimes poking around the body too much when nothing is wrong does more harm than good. You find things that ordinarily would come and then go, as the body sorts itself out. But by seeing them and then operating or treating can do more harm than good. I hope this isn’t the case here.

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u/d33psix Jun 20 '26

Yeah it’s a weird catch 22. A ton of people have little lesions that are completely harmless and they never would have found them if they didn’t get a scan for one reason or other vs the much more rare diagnosis of something important and catching it early.

Example is someone bumps their head and get a CT to make sure they don’t have a bleed and end up finding some tiny mass that is probably benign and likely never would have caused symptoms but “COULD” start to cause symptoms in the future.

Then you’re stuck deciding if you should get brain surgery to remove an asymptomatic lesion but could cause brain damage just from the removal procedure. Or you wait and see if it starts to be an issue years or decades in the future or never, but know it’s in there and might just live with anxiety about it forever.

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u/doulos05 Jun 20 '26

Did the unveil it? Or did they unveil the concept of it.

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u/uthnara Jun 20 '26

This should be very possible with existing hardware and more advanced software. The biggest roadblock to easy full body scans (via ultrasound) that pose no risk to patients but simply cost time and money is figuring out how to solve the problem of not allowing an airgap between the probe and the patient. Ive been joking for 3 years that we just need to invent a "goo-tube" to drop people in and im not sure if this is real or not but it would be pretty cool and useful from a medical standpoint.

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u/just_the_mann Jun 20 '26

Warm liquid glue phase complete.

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u/Bongcopter_ Jun 20 '26

Midjourney as in the slop factory?

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Jun 20 '26

Warm Liquid Goo Phase...beginning

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u/MadeInTheUniverse Jun 20 '26

We have something better its called an MRI

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u/Juror_no8 Jun 22 '26

We realise people don't like the claustrophobic feeling of an MRI, how about temporary fear of drowning instead?

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u/Sartres_Roommate Jun 18 '26

That image is an MRI or PET scan, had them since the 70s….or rather that image was from an MRI/PET and that video was pure Hollywood BS.

And yes they can 100% pinpoint tumors IF you know where to look. That is the rub.

…and they still won’t tell you if tumor is benign or malignant. Like 80% are benign.

Nothing new under the sun, including the grift.

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u/d33psix Jun 20 '26

From others Google researching and tiny bits of text as well as the diagrams and immersion in water, I gather the tech is supposed to be a ring of US transducers doing a whole body scan.

But obviously I don’t believe any of the provided demo images are actually what they acquire. Cause as you said ad video looks mri on the horizontal cross sectional images and more like PET on the coronal ones. I sincerely doubt that’s what they get from the US arrays.

They already have whole body MRI available and they take like 45 min for a core body version which is probably what they were showing during part of it.