It's what Apple should be doing. I'd be reluctant to give this to Perplexity.
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Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions
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If you don’t mind your biometrics being used to train “ai” models for whatever purposes the techbroligarchy sees fit from now until the end of time then there is nothing bad about it
Student of Life
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You have too much faith in the avg person. We literally just had a CEO ignore his legal team in voiding a contract bonus which will now cost the company $$$ and damages in illegally voiding the contract.
CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
www.404media.co
If that’s a CEO of a huge company, imagine what the avg person will do.
Unless it is not used against me it is fine. Training SkyNet on my data is fine too.
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surfzen21
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Is it or will it remain private?
Can they sell it to health insurance companies, life insurance companies, research firms who sell info to law firms for their cases, etc?
It seems every few months I get a piece of physical mail from some company that has my info and has been breached. They do the normal BS and offer credit monitoring for 1 year for free.
It's amazing how many will give up their data, believing everything they read, tossing caution to the wind, and buy into whatever narrative is being presented.
Big tech wins and laughs all the way to the bank.
You’re giving the majority of society too much credit😉
Will see but the article says "Health data is encrypted, and Perplexity says there are strict access controls and tools to manage or delete information at any time. Health information is not used to train AI models or sold to third parties."
chrono1081
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This is a terrible thing. AI is pure **** at most things. It’s not doing anything except guessing the next plausible token. It can’t think, it can’t reason, it guesses.
AIs can’t even do simple things like count the letters in a word or give you the longest county in your state correctly. Why would anyone trust their health with it?
That’s the problem though, too many don’t understand the limitations of the technology and think it’s some intelligent thing they can use as if it’s infallible.
AIs can’t even do simple things like count the letters in a word or give you the longest county in your state correctly. Why would anyone trust their health with it?
That’s the problem though, too many don’t understand the limitations of the technology and think it’s some intelligent thing they can use as if it’s infallible.
Sputman99
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If your in the US all your social security data is already out in the wild thanks to the teenagers from DOGE
Do people know that a lot of cars brakes to stop with are controlled by a computer?
Stop using those cars and the internet you are doomed from the start little by little.
Ai will determine who lives and who dies.
signed :Terminator.
j/k but some truths
Stop using those cars and the internet you are doomed from the start little by little.
Ai will determine who lives and who dies.
signed :Terminator.
j/k but some truths
Séamus Boyle
macrumors regular
It’s like that Pokémon go game. Look at what Niantic is doing now with that data.
Given the infancy of AI and all the snafu's with data ending up searchable on the net...hard pass
Snørrbjørg
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outside of the obviously bad idea that every other comment has already touched on, why are we making people pay hundreds of thousands to be educated on medicine & the human body if people are going to think their AI chatbot is a better practitioner of medicine. perhaps one day we'll have some ai scanner that can figure out what's wrong with you off the blood from a finger prick, but i imagine we're still a long ways out from that sort of sci fi becoming reality.
I suppose if you live in the us anything the govt knew about you is already for sale to whomever would like to buy it
Much further away in time then anyone commenting here imagines.
Like not in their lifetimes
I’ll just leave this here for the “what could go wrong” crowd
arstechnica.com
FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms
Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.
arstechnica.com
