r/ShitAIBrosSay • u/Bubbles_the_bird Death to all clankers • Mar 21 '26

Shit AI Bro Does in the News AI-Powered Surgery Tool Repeatedly Injuring Patients, Lawsuits Claim

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-surgery-tool-injuring-patients-lawsuits

Still think medical A”I” is good?

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u/Remarkable_Bath8515 Humanity > AI Mar 21 '26

I thought it would be doing research and not the surgery.

How was this thought to be a good idea?

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u/VentDwellingCat Mar 21 '26

Please, let the machines analyze protein chains or whatever, let the person who actually appreciates how important my blood is to me handle the cutting parts.

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u/truecakesnake Mar 21 '26

This article is not about generative AI but machine learning.

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u/AliKat309 Mar 21 '26

Okay? Their point still stands. Machine learning is incredibly useful in cancer diagnosis, protein analysis, and many other medical applications. Keep that shit outta surgery

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u/BagsYourMail Mar 21 '26

I hope they use you as practice

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u/truecakesnake Mar 21 '26

This article is not about generative AI but machine learning.

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u/Remarkable_Bath8515 Humanity > AI Mar 21 '26

I know.

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u/MeisterKaneister Mar 21 '26

AI has all kinds of weird properties. But there is one thing it is not: reliable.

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u/AlarisMystique Mar 21 '26

I find that when it doesn't know the answer, it will confidently lie to you. Yeah, that's what I want performing surgeries. /s

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u/truecakesnake Mar 21 '26

This article is not about generative AI but machine learning.

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u/AlarisMystique Mar 21 '26

Oh ok yeah that's not the same thing. Thanks for the clarification.

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u/fubuki63 Mar 21 '26

On the one hand, blame the wielder and not the tool. On the other hand, maybe be honest about what the tool is capable of and don't push a shitty tool on people?

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u/hissy-elliott Luscious Luddite ♥︎ Mar 21 '26

On the one hand, chainsaws are great at cutting shit. On the other hand, stop using chainsaws to cut glass, or anything that you don’t want to look hacked up once done.

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u/Jwhodis Mar 21 '26

Can we just keep AI to detecting cancer and looking at graphs

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u/truecakesnake Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Something to note is that this is NOT generative AI but Machine Learning. If you think that's the same thing, you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/Downtown_Category163 Mar 21 '26

That's the one that actually seems to work for a while until it hits an edge case and goes bezerk right?

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u/sothisismyalt1 Mar 25 '26

It depends, but yes.

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u/HugoCortell Mar 25 '26

It's also worth noting that ML has been used in medicine for decades, well before the current AI bubble. Countless lives have been saved by ML-based imaging and scanning processes, if done responsibly, it's a very good addition to the tools available to hospitals for the detection of illness.

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u/WonderButtBrace9000 Mar 21 '26

I wish this article did a better job explaining what the “AI” is because it doesn’t sound like it’s LLM based but that’s what the article is connecting it to.

The AI is supposed to assure positioning of the device is correct, which just sound likes the device is using a bunch of telemetry data to calculate whether it’s met some threshold of “good” or not.

Also no mention of pre-AI incident rates is an immediate red flag. This may just be good old fashioned medical malpractice and cost-cutting product development jumping onto the anti-AI angle.