this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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I used to look forward to emails from Oxford about new textbooks coming out and emerging fields of research.

Now they send me this fucking attrocity of an email about an event for AI "innovation" simulation in Healthcare, generating studies.

It took me a mere 148ms to unsubscribe, the only reason the date isn't censored is because I hope somebody attends and makes a ruckus. FUCK YOU OUP.

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I went to visit my GP about a year ago and he said something like "We're trialling this AI thing that's going to listen to our conversation if that's ok".

I like the guy and understand that most people don't really understand tech so I said something like "I'd prefer we disabled it if that's ok". He reacted as though I'd asked to finger his butt hole.

I spared him the following rant but... I just don't understand why anyone would actually want that. I want a doctor that listens to me when I talk to him. If he actually remembered me and kind of got to know me over the years that would be a bonus but it's not really necessary.

I just want to talk to a human and have that human listen to me.

I do not want an LLM to listen in and prompt the GP to refer me to their in-house dietician because I mentioned I'm feeling a bit flat.

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You know this tool that they are trialing is to enable them to spend more time with you and less time doing paperwork, right?

I get your feeling, but I think you are missing the forest for the trees here.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 2 hours ago

Sorry chief.

Its to enable them to see more patients in less time, and to sell bullshit additional services.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm more interested in my paperwork being done correctly by a human, tbh. I don't want to wind up in an emergency and get the wrong bloodtype transfused because some piece of shit techbro thought he'd reinvent the wheel.

[–] Tundra_Lifeform@piefed.social 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is exactly how I see adults whenever they talk with excitement about replacing brain-powered work with AI prompting. Sometimes they begin a sentence and I see a spark in their fucking eyes knowing exactly that the sentence is going to segue into "(...) and then smirks I opened ChatGPT and (...)".

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

ai has been used in health care for like 15 years. it's not the same ai as the current bubble is about.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

It literally says "How academic research can be simulated", "why some models are more scalable than others", and "Which publications are practically useful, and which ones aren't"

This is not ambiguous, it's talking about trash chatbot GenAI and LLMs used to write and summarize papers.

When I said in the title these assbots have killed people because of their use in healthcare, I was not exagerating. Physicians have been misinformed leading to punctured arteries then disability or death.

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It actually says "how academic work can be stimulated".. not simulated.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago

That's fair, but I still think the wording here does not imply normal learning machine use and that Oxford Publishing would have been careful to clarify such.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

...how did you get llms from that? simulation is part of academic research, all machine learning systems use models, and it could just as well refer to useful "for the purposes of the simulation".

was there more info of the event?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

We live in a very brief but ongoing time period where AI means LLMs to the vast majority of people, and if Oxford weren't shilling like so many other higher education institutions they would have been careful about their wording.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

that's an assumption. it's a marketing term and they want people te come to their seminar, of course they would use it.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 50 minutes ago

They're definitely not getting people like me or any reputable physicians or medical researchers to go to their seminar this way. This is the equivalent to naming a movie "Melania", imo.