Post by @gedeonm@mastodon.social

2026-11-15 04:48 UTC

I visited my old oncologist this week for a check up (I’m fine) it was great seeing her but we got to speaking about the state of the world and talk turned to AI. This woman saved my life back in 2005 when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and she is brilliant but she’s distressed about where AI is taking us especially her field. She explained it’s becoming more and more difficult for her to research proper courses of treatment because of the flood of inaccurate AI “results”. 1/

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@gedeonm@mastodon.social 2026-11-15 04:54

Her children are in college and they tell her that their instructors are witnessing a marked decrease in critical thinking skills in students across the board due to their reliance on AI and their willingness to accept what it presents as “fact”. These two data points had her very worried. I told her how generative AI had weakened my business’ design services and she lamented how everything is starting to “look the same” in design. You don’t say? AI’s net effect is… distressing. 2/2

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@paul@tapbots.social 2026-11-15 04:57

@gedeonm@mastodon.social did you tell her that Dario said AI is going to cure cancer a couple weeks after their IPO?

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@electrogas@mastodon.social 2026-11-15 06:24

@gedeonm@mastodon.social Here's an interesting blog post from a guy in pharma about how people are expecting AI to solve cancer and other diseases: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/stop-it-just-stop-it

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@jonathankoren@sfba.social 2026-11-15 07:13

@gedeonm@mastodon.social I think we’re being deskilled. Don’t get me wrong, for a lot of things, AI is useful. It is easier. It is quicker. But at the same time, we become reliant on it because we don’t understand how it came up with the answer. Since we don’t understand, we’re stuck with taking its word for it, and more importantly become reliant on it. And the more reliant we become on it, the more we as a society become more willing to pay a monthly fee just to do what used be basic skills. It’s a seductive racket.

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@wrath0110@mastodon.social 2026-11-15 09:01

@gedeonm@mastodon.social Tell her to stop using search engines which include AI summaries. Suggest DDG instead.

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@msmamet@mastodon.social 2026-11-15 10:21

@gedeonm@mastodon.social The research part is what I don't have an answer to. Your oncologist can still tell a bad treatment result from a good one, and I don't know how a doctor who trains after AI answers fill the search results learns to.

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@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science 2026-11-15 13:07

@gedeonm@mastodon.social #AI is the #asbestos in the ceilings, floors, and walls of #cyberspace. #Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

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