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[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 152 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here are the people responsible for the nH Predict AI tool that they knew has a 90% error rate when denying claims:

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boomer trash are always there to grift

They got such eggshells egos too.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I shouldn't still need to point this out but most boomers are poor. They also have a lot of medical issues and are mistreated by the health system and aged care. They are also mentally abused by cynical political strategists that target their fears and drive them half crazy.

If you haven't noticed the wealth divide is increasing and the rich are getting further away from regular people. That is happening despite rich boomers dying. Their wealth is being inherited and their replacements are just as mean.

Anytime you see a divisive comment like old.people, immigrants, trans are at fault question the source and if it is worth repeating. Its possible a lot of such comments originate in enemies of free societies. Community is important. It's the foundation for a fair and peaceful society. We can't have community while we have this mindset of excluding the other.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There are also reasonably credible opinions that all of the things we divide ourselves on are deliberately propagated to distract us from the real power imbalance - all of us versus the incredibly wealthy. All of us against the corporations.

Generation anger especially is nuts. The older generation will die, their supposed enormous wealth will go to the generation below, and so on. Boomers had fewer children than the generation before, X have had even fewer. Generational wealth should be concentrating

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not going to dispute this but top 10% are essentially all boomers and they sick owner dick with joy while selling out everyone.

The poor ones are retarded sure but they wanted for this shit.

Frankly, boomers are not allies and they need to be held accountable for their role here.

Any boomer with half a brain knows all of this anyway. I doubt I am hurting that persons feelings.

Also boomer is now mental state as many gen x sold out and rich boomer crotch fruit larp it. Quit being poor

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might as well start calling 20 year olds boomers because it is a class war and always has been a class war and always will be a class war and age is irrelevant. Any name that obscures that fact only helps perpetuate the divisions. Ageists are in the same category as racists, sexists and all other bigots. They contribute nothing to debate but name calling. Deal with the hate or direct it where it is deserved. Call these health insurance CEOs what they are. They are parasitic hoarders of wealth who profit from the misery of others. In fair societies we provide healthcare for all, young and old without these scum. Only a society that has its shit together can do something like that and you can't get your shit together if all you do is call people names.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“We are sorry, the algorithm said you should die, soooooo….”

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing we can do, nobody at fault. This just how things are

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I sort of see why UHC would go in this direction. Case law (as in understand it) around AI and algorithms is that they can't be ~~blamed~~ held accountable on how they make decisions. Because they are black boxes, they are given a pass.

When a human reviews and denies a claim, it can be scrutinized, making it possible for the human to be reviewed and discredited. And a human might even gasp approve a case.

When it's AI, it can't be reviewed. It can be blamed, but with no responsibility, it can't be sued.

We really need more regulation around algorithms and AI or more shit like this is going to happen.

Edit: wording

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

But AI is a tool, it's like saying you can't sue the gun I shot you with so you just need to suck it up.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if our legal system gonna be like that, then parasitic executive culture will chimp out.

They used algos for fixing rent for a decade and are still doing. Government barely lift a finger to fix it and I bet we will keep getting fucked for another decade

This is just how the country is being ran... We need to accept it and go in opposition

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could people stop sharing this image of the guy who clearly was not the murderer?!

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 year ago
[–] 108@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So his decisions resulted in others deaths?

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

Insurance companies practice medicine without a license all the time and those practices result in death. We are just supposed to pretend that's the correct way to live.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally unrelated question, but did Hitler actually directly kill anyone? Mao? Or was it just through their directing of others?

[–] teegus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, Hitler did kill at least one person..

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Sigh... Yea but he also killed the guy that killed hitler

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

How did he even manage to sleep knowing this was the job he did.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On piles of money, I'm sure.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

dragons are a parable

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

With many beautiful ladies

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Abstraction. These people are in such a different class compared to the average person that they basically don't associate with them, so they never see the consequence of their downright evil actions... up until a scorned man with nothing to lose makes them very clear very quickly.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you cry everytime you step on a bug?

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Personally? I don't even kill bugs I find inside. They are taken outside. When my cat destroys the occasional lizard, I have to euthanize them rather than let them die slowly in pain or throwing them outside to die out of sight. I cry then usually.

I think a lot of CEOs aren't capable of empathy, or have been so detached to human cost by the many layers of numbers and intermediaries between

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

Probably would if it shot me

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder what's going to go through his familys minds when it all settles.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They got generational wealth out of it.

I wouldn't worry about them... People Brian Thompson murdrr and their families didn't get nothing.

Never forget

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

The most defining trait of Sociopaths and Psychopaths is having no empathy, so for people like this the suffering of others, be it of their own making or not, has about as much emotional impact as the "suffering" of a leaf of lettuce when they eat it or of a piece of paper they crumple and thrown in the trashcan.

This also means that, amongst other things, they feel no guilt whatsoever (would you feel guilt from eating a leaf of lettuce?!) and will sleep like babies with the blood of thousands on their hands.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Look, if we allow these claims then everyone sick will file claims. The hit on our profit margin would be terrible!"

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don’t understand. This man was a pillar of empathy and dedicated his life to improving access to healthcare.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago

Found the shareholder. /s

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

(Of his stockholders)*

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ai they use is also not intended to separate those who need care from those who don't, instead the ai is meant to separate those who would successfully appeal against the decision from those who wouldn't. This is how the UHC denial rate was able to shoot up so fast: from 10.9% in 2020 to 32% in 2023. There have to be a lot of excess deaths, personal bankruptcies and homelessness hiding behind that statistic.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's at least one chronic pain patient who allegedly took it out on one CEO, causing one excess death. It'll be nuts if his jury nullifies his alleged crime

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, I was in an AI/ML training session about a year ago, and there were a few hospital execs there too. They were absolutely giddy about the prospect of using AI to deny care to unprofitable patients.

So this must be all the "innovation" and "disruption" I keep hearing about.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deposed. I would not use the m word. Its in the tos.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A computer program that returns “denied” in all situations is not an AI.

[–] Espiritdescali@futurology.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
function DetermineClaim(input) {
    return "denied";
}
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[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What an all around nice guy.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Truly a shame he got unjustly murdered. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Ridiculously photogenic working class hero

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

now you know the real reason for ai existence. making more money for those that have too much

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