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Alright, if you look at this story from a more reputable source (Reuters), it's quite a bit different. Meta isn't accused of using AI with people's medical information to make early diagnoses and lay them off. Instead,
So it's still shitty workplace surveillance and discrimination but not the same kind of surveillance and discrimination alleged in the Twitter posts. Meta is using AI to try to rank workers' productivity (on a bunch of shitty metrics) in a way that may discriminate against people with disabilities or who take medical leave or who are pregnant.
What a bullshit arguments.
Literally in the court case papers.
source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474171/gov.uscourts.cand.474171.1.0.pdf
You will now say this is not true ? You're AI enthusiast, Meta employee or something ?
I literally said that Meta was firing people for protected leave, disabilities, and medical issues. What I was denying is that they were firing people on the basis of "pre-diagnoses." All the complaints in the lawsuit are based on diagnoses that employees disclosed to Meta. I think that's shitty and illegal, but I don't think there is evidence that Meta is acquiring undisclosed medical information about their employees and using that for layoffs.
Reuters is not a reputable source. And it's the same headline
Because Meta doesn't have access to their medical info yet. They would 100% do so if they ever managed to get their hands on this info. Big corporations can't wait to go full Aktion T4 mode.
I always heard Reuters is very reputable. Can you share some evidence that shows why you think it isn't?
There pretty reputable but their writers use incredibly loaded language pretty often, sanewashing Trump and republicans while doing the opposite with dems to fuel the both sides discourse. More objective in average than the average but the agenda is still clear.
No idea why they are saying it’s not reputable. As far as I am aware, it puts out probably some of the most trusted news compared other similar news outlets. Plus it is also one of the least biased news sources out there right now.
From https://guides.emich.edu/WRTG121/evaluating
Is there a newer version of this chart? It's dated from 2018, and things have certainly changed since then.
Oh! Looks like there is an interactive version now. It does not seem to be optimized for phone, but Reuters is still roughly in the same spot it was in 2018.
https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive
One Palestinian genocide whitewashing later and Reuters is still on top...
Question the raters for once.
The chart doesn’t say that every article they’ve published falls there, it just says on average they do. There are multiple articles for them marked as less reliable.
Funny thing is, Infowars is now Onion property.
Yea haha. That is an out of date chart. They have an interactive one (posted in another comment). Though I didn’t check where Infowars falls now.
Thanks, that's what I understood!
As a non American from a more socialist country: more like Overtonwindowbias.com 😅
You're just posting the Propaganda Multiplier but it's the propaganda version of it. These newspapers get their talking points from the US government and will publish whatever they are asked to. This is especially noticeable whenever the US invades a country and lies to manufacture consent for the invasion.
You're posting a picture of Swiss Propaganda Research, an anonymous group that spreads conspiracy theories while accusing Swiss media of "one-sided and uncritical" reporting. This falls squarely into what we in Switzerland call Schwurbler territory: people who peddle wild claims like Bill Gates implanting 5G chips through COVID vaccines or "mainstream science" secretly working to enslave humanity. The figure presumably behind SPR, Daniele Ganser, styles himself as a "peace researcher" (a self-invented title with no academic foundation). He was fired from ETH Zurich, where he served as a Senior Researcher, for promoting 9/11 conspiracy myths, and his subsequent teaching positions, including at the University of St. Gallen, were terminated after his theories were deemed damaging to institutional reputation.
https://www.beobachter.ch/multimedia/digital/anonyme-warner-mit-scharfem-s-297308
It doesn't matter who made it. What matter is that it's correct. All international media copy pastes anything these propaganda outlets say without double checking it.
If you want a more blatant example of Reuters lying, during the Maccabi riots in Amsterdam they said that a video of Maccabi supporters attacking a Moroccan was the inverse to push the narrative that there was a Pogrom against Jews
Reuters and other propaganda outlets were notified of this by the person who made the video but they refused to correct it for multiple days because they had to keep the narrative going.
https://whispering.media/the-maccabi-gospel/
I will not engage further in this convo. you're simplifying things. nobody claims that media never is without a doubt biasfree. but stating that all is propaganda fed by the pentagon is a false claim and spreading such nonsense is dangerous for every democracy. tschüss.
When presented with absolute evidence debunking your BS you just tap out. Of course I'm talking to a German
They’re on lemmy.ml. I’m sure they have some insane tankie reasoning
Your server is banning people for celebrating the death of Lindsey Graham it's kind of incredible you're claiming people are insane to not be on it.
Here's a recent flagrant one https://lemmy.ml/post/48321919
Yeah..... I've kinda been dreading the day when they attempt to modify HIPAA to allow the automation of the authorization process for work places to access your medical data.
Right now as a provider if a workplace requests medical records for one of my patients I get to decide if they have authorization, a valid reason to make the request, and get to determine what information they have access to that is pertinent to their request.
I have a sneaking suspicion that with the spread of EMR systems like Epic, employers will attempt to pressure legislators to change HIPAA to automate the process and cut providers out of the picture.
The problem is that electronic medical records programs like Epic are still really shit about how they allocate things like diagnosis codes. There doesn't seem to be a good way to differentiate primary diagnosis codes made by a PCP and the diagnosis codes used for billing and documenting follow up care. It forces you to enter diagnosis codes anytime you enter a medical note, even if you don't have the proper licensing to make a diagnosis. So when someone like a nurse is documenting their care, they may just add miscellaneous diagnosis code just so they can enter their documentation.
Now any human who works in healthcare and has used Epic can read through the note and from context understand that it's a throw away miscellaneous dx code, but something like AI may just use that dx code as justification to widen the scope of their access.
So did they look at weird boobie pictures to decide to fire female employees or nah?
They would if they could. That's the point.
They're already using AI to detect medical conditions to fire people on.
Capitalism will eventually look at your weird boobie pictures and fire you for them if you Capitalism long enough.
Probably any system that is managed too efficiently starts to suck.
This is really an interesting example. Not sure if one should blame AI or capitalism for this. Kinda reminds me of Gattaca.
Theoretically capitalism could do this manually to optimize for profit, but there are limits. You can only hire so many completely psychotic human resources employees until very weird and bad shit starts to happen and your company is sucked straight into a hellmouth. But an AI robot is completely objective, unemotional, unbiased, beautifully soulless and can surely maximize profit endlessly with no pesky human side effects. Obviously it can't but that is the dream.
Capitalism exists to serve, you guessed it, capital.
This means those who have money will be served and those who don't have money will not.
Big banks who have money are getting bailouts and poor people have their social security removed.
Large companies have their needs fulfilled and those who don't have money are not.