I think a deep learning system, given a few months of posts from an account on social media can estimate the age of the poster quite accurately #ai #socialmedia

@andyjennings

AI has accused autistic students of using AI to write papers because of their writing style. We can’t base the expulsion of a person from a platform based on an estimate by AI.

@Susan60 no. But it could reduce the number of cases to be examined.

@andyjennings

Yes, could be used to screen for potential cases.

@Susan60 @andyjennings

Though a study showed that having an AI result strongly biases subsequent human reviewers' judgements.

The study was, from memory, AI evaluating cancers on xrays, with human radiologists following after.

Seeing no reason that similar poisoning of independent human expert judgement would not happen in the situation to hand.

#PoisoningOfIndependentExpertJudgement #AIDanger

@skua @Susan60 interesting. I’ll see if I can find that

@andyjennings @Susan60
Sorry for the absence of any citation Andrew.
I should have taken more time and found it before posting.
The study appeared on Mastodon about ? 6 weeks ago.

Search engine not currently helping me find the study. Will try again later.

@andyjennings @Susan60

There is an article (apparently absent a direct cite of the journal article. 😞 ) on euronews.
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/11/21/study-cautions-radiologists-not-to-over-rely-on-ai-tools-for-diagnosis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The orginal article is I think (but haven't checked)

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.232746

Study cautions radiologists not to over-rely on AI tools for diagnosis

Researchers also found that physicians were more likely to trust an AI explanation if it pinpointed a specific area on an X-ray.

euronews

@skua @andyjennings

That’s a good point. Would be good to do studies where the humans weren’t first aware of the AI result, or had been given varying results. Maybe that’s what they did.

@Susan60 @andyjennings
There are plenty of other studies that show increased detection rates when AI is used.

It seems to be, as with many things, how it is used that determines the benefits.