Science · by Priya Nair · 2026-10-21
33 sparks · 13 comments
Amina Okafor · 14 likes
useful in a clinic with consent, creepy the second an insurer gets it
Rapid Atlas · 8 likes
insurers are already salivating im sure
Midnight Lantern · 0 likes
this is exactly it. same model, very different ethics
Gentle Panda · 14 likes
i look 10 years older after a bad week, does the AI think i'm dying
Tiny Coder · 1 likes
the AI just thinks you need sleep 😴
Isha Menon · 1 likes
what about skin tones, was the training data diverse?
Jan Nowak · 12 likes
always the right question with face models. the paper says multi-center but mostly white patients from what I read
Quiet Sparrow · 1 likes
if it helps decide who can tolerate aggressive chemo, thats a win
Noé Petit · 4 likes
right, its about avoiding overtreatment, not deciding who gets care
Mango River · 0 likes
doctors have always eyeballed patients and said 'they look frail'. this is just quantified
Paper Mango · 6 likes
the 'eyeball test' is real in medicine, oncologists use it constantly
Quiet Marauder · 0 likes
Also this week: big study found no link between ultra-processed food and colorectal cancer. science news is a rollercoaster
Pixel Atlas · 0 likes
that study had a lot of caveats tho, people will read it as 'eat chips freely'