Eric Schultz

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116342790895816786

It sure seems like the medication for mentally ill shouldn't be prescribed by the chatbots that cause psychosis.

Apr 4 at 12:38amWeb
Show threadRobin2d ago
@wwahammy correct
Show threadPointlessOne 1d ago

@wwahammy so I looked at the linked press release and a few things look interesting.

  • It’s a phased roll out. The first stage looks a lot like RLHF to me. AI decisions are gonna be reviewed by licensed physician before granting prescription and the target is > 98% agreement rate in the first 250 cases and > 99% in the next 1000.

  • It targets “non-controlled, maintenance psychiatric medications, such as SSRIs for depression and anxiety”. And inly renewals. No new prescriptions or dosage changes.

  • They already do this with some 200 common meds.

    • All this seems to point to the nature of prescriptions in these cases. It’s all just busywork. The meds should be available over the counter and prescriptions should have no set term limit. The list of meds is not in the press release and I’m too lazy to go look for it but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case in other countries already.

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