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So it performs slightly worse than a coin flip...
Holy shit! That's a lot worse than a coin flip.
And there are real people out there that actually trust this tech to make real decisions for them. It literally performs significantly worse than a coin flip both with regards to false positives and false negatives. You are literally better off flipping a coin or throwing a dice than asking this thing what to do.
Even better than a coin flip is asking this what to do then doing the opposite!
It is truly horrifying when you drill into the numbers.
I can see that it MIGHT be useful as a tool for medical professionals, but exposing it to the public is an insane risk.
they'll never be regulated because fascists love the mass surveillance. who cares about false positives--number of people bagged goes up either way
You're even better off by doing the opposite of what chatgpt tells you to do.