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Posted by ricochet11 3 days ago

Midjourney Medical(www.midjourney.com)
https://www.midjourney.com/medical

Video: https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067422898407837797

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donohoe 3 days ago|
Amazing. Unless you’re in a wheelchair or can’t stand.
fastball 3 days ago|
Presumably you can just hang from above.
donohoe 3 days ago||
I doubt it. Would that not interfere with the scan? I’ve really no idea on the merits of this.
fastball 3 days ago||
Why would that interfere with the scan?
alpineman 3 days ago||
Great, a hallucinated output that only the super wealthy can afford, only to waste doctors' time with the need to run every test again at huge expense. Can we not leave medicine to the professionals? Creating a ghibli rip-off is not the same as diagnosing cancer.
ixaxaar 3 days ago|
Well healthcare needs its own DLSS 5!
alpineman 3 days ago||
I would just add that my wife is a doctor and in the age of AI it's truly unbearable. In addition to super long hours and stress they now have to deal with patients coming and thinking they know better than people who spent more than a decade in education because of what some chatbot told them.
bhouston 3 days ago||
Hmmm… such a slow rollout. In this age of AI assisted development I would expect them to move faster. I would be concerned about Chinese tech replicating this and then selling it to competing wellness spas.

I guess some type of software platform would add some competitive distancing?

I get the benefits of regular scans although I also know that they tend to catch a lot of otherwise benign tumors that can cause a lot of stress.

skavi 3 days ago||
it would suck if Chinese tech advanced medical care faster or made it cheaper.
ttoinou 3 days ago||
Being realistic is good
ddxv 3 days ago||
It's interesting to see an AI company need to pivot so hard in order to find revenue. I guess this means there is very little easy money to be made as more and more models get created, shared and downloaded by others.
autoexec 3 days ago|
Just an crazy idea, but if I were an unethical AI company that wanted to make better AI generated images of people's bodies, I might be tempted to offer very cheap full body scans in an unregulated fancy looking pop-up "med spa" where I could just use my AI to generate fake but impressive medical-looking pictures and then tell everyone who came in the results were inconclusive and they should get themselves checked out by an actual doctor in a hospital "just in case".

Maybe I'd even underpay a few people in developing countries with experience reading ultrasounds to check over the images so that if the humans detected anything suspicious I could give my sucker/client something more specific to tell their doctor about. That'd probably get me some good PR on social media as people post about how my fancy spa found their massive tumor or whatever.

Then I'd use their body scans as training data for my image generating AI. The waivers I'd have people sign to use the service would make sure that I wasn't at risk of any thorny legal issues from the use of all those images for training unlike the rampant copyright infringement method I'd been using previously and would also make sure I couldn't be held responsible for anything my scans found or didn't find.

Less cynically, maybe this thing will be nothing at all like that and one day it'll end up being used by real doctors in actual hospitals and save a bunch of lives or something. Who knows.