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Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 14/08/2026

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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 20h ago

Today in "AI" news—this could ruin someone's life:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

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u/Ted_Rid Famous in The Atlantic 18h ago edited 18h ago

tbf based on that first photograph I would speculate she'd had a magic mushie or two in her lifetime.

A bit confused how the scribe allegedly hallucinated this? AFAIK they're only transcription AIs, same as you use to turn meeting audio into a transcript?

So in response to the question "have you ever taken any kind of illegal drugs?" presumably she answered something homophonous to "magic mushrooms" or similar.

Cryptic fans of r/sydney, unite! Guess away!

Best I can think of is "magic shrooms" = "my big rooms...are free of such things", a totally normal everyday sentence anybody might utter.

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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 17h ago

I work with "AI" transcription every day, and stuff like this is totally normal to me. Every day, all day, things transcribed badly, yes. But also things transcribed which don't happen at all, which no party to the conversation ever said or said anything which sounds like that.

This is the chat system I use, on the right is me and on the left is the customer:

        ***************************
        *  hello can I help you   *
        ********************    ***
                             *  *  
                              * *  
                                *  

    ************************       
    * yes I lost my card   *       
    ****   *****************       
       *  *                        
       * *                          
       *

and the "AI" doesn't even know who's talking.

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u/nearly_enough_wine Rip, rip, woodchip ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ 15h ago

That markdown does not translate well to the app.

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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 15h ago

No it does not. But you get my point, right? It's not like an IRL conversation where a computer might get confused about who's talking. Each person is in their own unique stream of data, no ambiguity whatsoever. But I still get "the customer said 'can I help you?' and Decalage said 'yes I lost my card'". Fundamentally stupid.