Notices by Cornelius K. (kln@mstdn.io)

While waiting for the optician I had a chat with the technician. Whom is not interested in becoming an optician (so it is not a "using students to save money - though it might further their career" thing even). It is de-skilling.

I now have to trust some LLM to interpret my eyes and not hallucinate the need for surgery (and trust it hasn't been instructed to aggressively up-sell, using the ignorance of the technician to suggest things that are not needed).

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Had my first brush with "AI" in the wild the other day. Went to my optician for the yearly check. Consultation started with a literal verbal disclaimer of "I am not an optician, I am a technician, all the questions are generated via AI and entered in an iPad. Our optician will review the results enabling us to service more clients."

I have F'd eyes. So after half an hour the optician was summoned (from which ever windowless room/cage they keep them in) to re-run the tests.

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@foone @aburka @marcan

Only thing that springs to mind would be along the lines of editing .htaccess and setting up an REFERER clause ?