As AI enters the #operating room, reports arise of botched #surgeries and misidentified body parts
#Medical device makers have been rushing to add #AI to their products.
While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize #medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of #patient #injuries.
#Malpractice #doctors #surgery #operations #hospitals #errors #AIFail
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts - https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/ Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.
Je confirme : si vous habitez dans la région de #montreal , n’allez jamais à cette clinique, même pour une urgence : ce sont des voleurs - Omicron : La clinique qui ne tolère pas la critique https://lp.ca/kpKVGq?sharing=true
@TheEconomist Wrecks Its Limited Credibility in Article on #DarkFactories That Ignores That #China Already Has a Lot of Them
" #TheEconomist has managed to sink to an astonishing low in a new #article, The “ChatGPT moment” has arrived for #manufacturing. Its managed te impressive show of #ignorance in a multi-page piece on te future of #production.. There's no justification for its grotesque #malpractice, of affirmatively making #readers stupid"🤦♂️
#nakedcapitalism ✅️ +1
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/the-economist-wrecks-its-limited-credibility-in-article-on-dark-factories-that-ignores-that-china-already-has-a-lot-of-them.html
Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?
I found myself wondering about this when I stumbled across a photo I took in London nearly ten years ago. It was jarring to be reminded how visible LLMs were such that they literally took out advertising on the tube.
It’s ironic these were banned in the UK only months before the launch of ChatGPT. The language of the policy suggests potential complexity about its implementation:
It is now a criminal offence to provide or arrange for another person to provide contract cheating services for financial gain to students taking a qualification at a post-16 institution or sixth form in England, enrolled at a higher education provider in England and any other person over compulsory school age who has been entered for a regulated qualification at a place in England.
Similarly, it is now an offence for a person to make arrangements for an advertisement in which that person offers, or is described as being available or competent, to provide or arrange for another person to provide a cheating service. Importantly, the offence centres around the act of advertising to students, and for the offence to be committed it does not need to be seen by its target demographic.
Don’t get me wrong. This was clearly a good thing. But given how much of a drugs trade (as well as a fraud trade predicated on getting people to transfer money for non-existent drugs) exists through mass commercial social media platforms, it’s difficult to imagine that a prohibition would be particularly effective. It would increase the costs of doing business and make essay mills less accessible to those students who were only dimly curious about the possibility. But it wouldn’t remove them from the internet.
Obviously LLMs were a different proposition. Why pay hundreds of pounds for an essay that can be produced through a chatbot? This was always more complex than it was imagined such that we’re only now (with Claude 4.5, Gemini 3 and GPT 5.2 as well as their deep research functions) when you can meaningfully hope to produce a ‘good’ essay based on the title alone. But how much of the work of essays mills was ‘good’ in the first place? Obviously the economic proposition which essay mills made to students fundamentally changed, suggesting a plausible possibility that LLMs overnight decimated any potential mass market for contract cheating.
Interestingly Joseph Thibault suggests that traffic has declined significantly but the essay mills have not died off:
While AI writing tech (not frontier models or wrapped products but services explicitly offering writing help to students, including ‘humanising’) traffic has jumped:
If the database he’s curating is reasonably representative this is good prima facie evidence for thinking that essays mills haven’t died and also suspecting that parts of the industry have pivoted into AI-enabled cheating. This raises the question of why they haven’t died? How have their offerings changed? Who is paying for them? Are writers now using LLMs themselves? How do students distinguish between automated writing and human expert writing? There’s a cruel irony in the image of students paying for contract cheating that is effectively done by someone using an LLM that the student could have accessed themselves.
Could the great assessment panic have ironically propped up this market by creating such anxiety amongst students about what counts as ‘cheating with AI’ that they find it reassuring to continue to buy these products from an essay mill instead?
Interesting that there have been no recorded offences under the law:
However, both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department for Education told the BBC they had no recorded offences reaching a first hearing in a magistrate’s court under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act.
#contractCheating #essayMills #generativeAI #humanisingServices #LLMs #malpractice #students #writingServices
Starting the year off with one of my resolutions, write more, find my voice, share my knowledge, and try to connect with people in my sphere of interests. So with that, I'm sharing my recipe and method for an original cocktail of mine that's now being served at Malpractice in Portland, OR.
Bad medical practice can be a cause of candidiasis (mycosis) #malpractice #candidiasis #mycosis ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce4U1HmpYo4
NHS reported to police after 'butcher surgeon' evidence destroyed - Sky News https://apple.news/AI489EpxTQEOjAIcYDGyoRQ
#nhs #dundee #malpractice
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IMAGINE DOING THAT TOOTHBRUSH THING WITH YOUR CLITORIS, MA’AM! Or, fellow men, if you are intact, imagine doing it!
I am 68 now, and I WOULD GIVE MY RIGHT ARM if I could live again, WITH my foreskin!
And, BTW, for most of my life, until ~13 years ago, I thought, “I’m circumcised and I’m OK with it!” – believing that the problems I DID actually have were my own, private, problems.
It was only when someone sent me to https://www.circumstitions.com that I realized that I had these diverse problems in common with circumcised (i.e. genitally mutilated) men. That was a harsh awakening for sure, from the #denial that #intactivists call the #CircumcisionComa.
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This is about the #barbaric #malpractice of #circumcision, of male #genital_mutilation
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Time to share this again because my life’s time is running out, I may have a year or two left but could just as well drop any day. Therefore I need to spread this far and wide, as I am a victim of this #barbaric #malpractice of #circumcision, of male #genital_mutilation.
I was circumcised shortly before my 6th birthday – I FKN REMEMBER HOW MUCH MORE SENSITIVE I WAS “DOWN THERE” before they did it to me, what extremely joyous, “electric”, feelings I had when I touched my glans and played with my foreskin, feelings that ran through my whole body from there.
In my twenties already there was NOTHING of that sensitivity anymore, you could press a #toothbrush against my glans and I’d not even know what was happening there unless I’d LOOK, I am so numb there that I only have very vague feeling of pressure there, and temperature, but nothing erogenous, no joyous feelings anymore.
Tom Malinowski: "When anyone proposes safeguards on AI, the Trump Administration says 'no -- that will slow us down and China will win the AI race.'
Then it lets NVIDIA sell advanced AI chips to China that will help it win the race.
The only common thread is giving AI companies what they want.
#politics #AI #tech #Trump #malpractice #corruption
"In the weeks after Joe Biden was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous. His positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings, experts advising his transition team warned in the final weeks of 2020. That jump, they said, could provoke a political crisis."
By ignoring this warning, Biden helped to re-elect Trump as president:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html
#Biden #malpractice #ignorance #politics #NotAsBadAsBidensDebate
Doctor Who Gave #MatthewPerry #Ketamine Is Sentenced to 30 Months
The doctor, Salvador Plasencia, had asked “I wonder how much this moron will pay” before supplying the drug to Mr. Perry, who became increasingly reliant on it before his death.
#criminal #law #medicine #malpractice #addiction #exploitation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/arts/television/matthew-perry-salvador-plasencia-sentencing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
“Research Into The Lived Experiences of Circumcised Men”
“15 Square believes that it is essential to engage in dialogue respectfully and with integrity—to raise awareness about the harms that some circumcised men have experienced and to encourage open dialogue and rational thinking. As it is a concern that is often raised by people sceptical of circumcision critics is that ‘circumcision is an important part of religious and cultural practice.’
At our Annual General Meeting, 15 Square was delighted to host the work of Leeanne Morris, MSc. Leeanne has been working on research into the psychological impacts of male circumcision. Leeanne interviewed members of 15 Square and men outside our organisation and then conducted a thematic analysis to find the common experiences expressed by the participants of her research.”
https://15square.org.uk/research-into-the-lived-experiences-of-circumcised-men/
#circumcision is #GenitalMutilation, is a #barbaric #malpractice.
@bitprophet personally.I still refuse to do this kind of #malpractice as a matter of principle!
Podcast: The UK Social Domestic Care Industry: Faults and Failings
My recent blog post titled “The UK Social Domestic Care Industry: Faults and Failings” is now available to listen to as a podcast on my Spotify channel and on all other podcasting channels where it is available, you can also listen to it below. I hope you enjoy it.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/63nltj9v7AgbrsiM96JMD4
Original Blog Post
#corruption #domesticCare #malpractice #socialCare #theft #violence
Epstein, Fuentes and Trump’s Political Erosion
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/opinion/epstein-trump-gop-fuentes.html
“The Case Against Circumcision
Why do we still engage in the ritual, nonconsensual genital mutilation of newborn boys?”
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a64713883/is-circumcision-good-bad/
#Circumcision is a #barbaric #malpractice, it is #Genital_Mutilation.
Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
@Mer__edith That's why YOU DON'T DO THAT to begin with!
Cuz lets be fundamentally clear on this one: There's no "legitimate reason" to mandate #PII like #PhoneNumbers and have #centralized infrastructure so riddled with #SPOF|s that it can't handle a single datacenter outage.
Seriously, if @signalapp was coded by some freelancer on #Fiverr for like $100 I'd be okay with that. But how many $ did the development and infrastructure cost you (per year)?
To me this is #malpractice!
