Most dentists in the US do fall under HIPAA. Disclaimer for some dentists in some states or some edge cases, but in general, US dentists have to comply with HIPAA.

Which means they need to select software that can be implemented in a HIPAA-compliant way and develop processes that protect PHI (protected health information). Or ensure someone on their staff is responsible for HIPAA security.

So yes, if in the US, it’s worth asking the dentist how this setup is kept HIPAA-compliant. If the dentist says “IDK, I just do tooth fixing stuff” then it’s time to find a new dentist; they shouldn’t be trusted with any private data with or without AI in the mix.

Edit: it also took 30 seconds to find the company’s website where they at least claim they are compliant to HIPAA, GDPR, and an alphabet soup of other names.

Yep. The dentist is shockingly dumb if they don’t already have a plan and response with how this didn’t fall south of HIPAA compliance.

People that like Fight Club, American Psycho, and Starship Troopers… k, but like, do you get it or are you a nut job?

Sounds like a better state-backed initiative would be to make mental health services available to this dude and to anyone else dealing with addiction issues. Especially since I assume this door guard was older than 18 and age verification, no matter how private, would have done nothing to stop his access to porn.

you gotta admit that there are psychological effects on avid adult viewers and more on minors

Citation needed when we’re talking about implementing laws and opening up lawsuits suing for $75k+. Multiple robust peer-reviewed citations needed. Preferably not funded by a Catholic church group.

Also it’s a leap to say top-down privacy invading laws are the way the state or federal government should handle it instead of the concerned parent monitoring computer usage. There’s so many free and subscription based parental control tools out there. Comprehensive sex education would be a potential alternate way for the state to support parents and teens to educate them on porn consumption and safe internet usage.

FYI, NCOSE, the group joining (likely funding) the lawsuit, is against comprehensive sex education.

I hope those aren’t his real initials because it seems like there’s more than enough information to identify him between the article and complaint filing. Poor kid doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this.

Ty! TIL. I’ve probably seen it many times before, but it only jumped out at me this time given the Olathe, KS setting and strong fundie Christian vibes.

Agreed. As a lawyer friend once told me, “you can sue someone for damn near anything. It doesn’t mean you’ll win”.

I imagine the “disability and disfigurement” will get sussed out at some point and either backed up w some sort of evidence, or taked out from the rest of the complaint.

Pretty sure those NCOSE assholes are the ones who said school shootings and other mass murders are because of moral decline due to gay people.

Jeebus, I need backup plans for Friday nights.

Page 8 & 9 of the court filing (not the article):

Through this time, Q.R. was able to access chaturbate.com on thirty different instances: […] seven instances on August 30, 2024 […]

Bruh, make sure to hydrate.

Page 13, absolutely fascinating to me that “prays for judgement” is stated and whether that is at all common:

Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants in an amount in excess of $75,000.00 for: a. actual damages resulting from Q.R.’s access to material that is harmful to minors, including but not limited to past medical expenses, future medical expenses, past and future lost services and disability, past and future pain, suffering, and disability […]

Page 15, looking for more details on alleged “disfigurement”:

As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ negligence, Plaintiff has suffered and will continue in the future to suffer the following damages: a. Pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish […]

It goes on to talk about pornography causing a shift in perspective on sex and possibly leading to addiction. Not finding anything specific on the alleged “disfigurement”.

I’m left to assume poor Q.R. will have to deal the rest of his life with the friction burns caused by jerkin’ it 7+ times on August 30, 2024.

His mom also demanded a jury trial, so Q.R. can rest easy knowing 12 strangers will hear about his friction burns and give it the serious attention due.

I coached my grandma to just repeat “I want to talk to a human operator, please” over and over until she got through. It worked about 70% of the time but some are nearly impenetrable.

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Ah, you want specialized instead of general.

Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?

Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.

If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?

Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?

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I use Podcast Addict too. Found it well over six years ago and never bothered to look for another.

I’m curious if you can articulate the difference between being critical of how a particular technology is owned and managed versus being a Luddite?

Is environmental impact on the top of anyones list for why they don’t like ChatGPT? It’s not on mine nor on anyones I have talked to.

The two most common reasons I hear are 1) no trust in the companies hosting the tools to protect consumers and 2) rampant theft of IP to train LLM models.

The author moves away from strict environmental focus despite claims to the contrary in their intro,

This post is not about the broader climate impacts of AI beyond chatbots, or about whether AI is bad for other reasons

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Other Objections, This is all a gimmick anyway. Why not just use Google? ChatGPT doesn’t give better information

… yet doesn’t address the most common criticisms.

Worse, the author accuses anyone who pauses to think of the negatives of ChatGPT of being absurdly illogical.

Being around a lot of adults freaking out over 3 Wh feels like I’m in a dream reality. It has the logic of a bad dream. Everyone is suddenly fixating on this absurd concept or rule that you can’t get a grasp of, and scolding you for not seeing the same thing. Posting long blog posts is my attempt to get out of the weird dream reality this discourse has created.

IDK what logical fallacy this is but claiming people are “freaking out over 3Wh” is very disingenuous.

Rating as basic content: 2/10, poor and disingenuous argument

Rating as example of AI writing: 5/10, I’ve certainly seen worse AI slop

I’ll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.

I’m not holding my breath. We have a Z that insists no one in her generation wants to put up with the 24/7 availability expected from those who want to advance in our industry. Yet I received emails from her over the weekend.

They’re human, same as the rest of us, and will justify all the bad labor hygiene that older generations have.