Courtesy of Medscape, I share an article ‘Deepfake Doctors: How AI Spreads Medical Disinformation’, whose content I found educative and the comments by other readers interesting.
The readers’ comments include:
i) SB, ‘Lots of disinformation ... like the lie we kept hearing that it is "extremely unlikely" that SARS-CoV 2 came from a laboratory. ChatGPT still says it most likely came from a zoonotic spillover.’;
ii) DB, ‘The article offers a good discussion of the perils of computer-generated fakes, and potential ways to distinguish a fake avatar from a real live human. But the tsunami of disinformation to which we have been subjected over the last five years came, as far as I know, entirely from humans. Verifying that they were actual people would have offered no protection whatsoever. Maybe in the future, AI-generated fakes will be a greater challenge; but for now, worrying about the computers seems to me to be straining at gnats while swallowing camels.The Devil has always been able to assume a pleasing aspect. Technology won't change that.’;
iii) SC, ‘I used to say that "Social media" was electronic pollution...I was wrong it is electronic poison’.
Read the full article, SOURCE: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/deepfake-doctors-how-ai-spreads-med...
Joseph Ana
HIFA profile: Joseph Ana is the Lead Senior Fellow/Medical Consultant at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Patient Safety in Calabar, Nigeria, established by HRI Global (former HRIWA). He is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Care in primary, emergency, operative, and critical care (TAG-IC2). As the Cross River State Commissioner for Health, he led the introduction of the Homegrown Quality Tool, the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme, in Nigeria (2004-2008). For sustainability, he established the Department of Clinical Governance, Servicom & e-health in the Cross River State Ministry of Health, Nigeria. His main interest is in whole health sector and system strengthening in Lower, Low and Middle Income Countries (LLMICs). He has written six books on the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance programme, suitable for LLMICs, including the TOOLS for Implementation. He served as Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association’s Standing Committee on Clinical Governance (2012-2022), and he won the Nigeria Medical Association’s Award of Excellence on three consecutive occasions for the innovation. He served as Chairman, Quality & Performance, of the Technical Working Group for the implementation of the Nigeria Health Act 2014. He is member, National Tertiary Health Institutions Standards Committee of the Federal Ministry of Health. He is the pioneer Secretary General/Trustee-Director of the NMF (Nigerian Medical Forum) which took the BMJ to West Africa in 1995. Joseph is a member of the HIFA Steering Group and the HIFA working group on Community Health Workers. (http://www.hifa.org/support/members/joseph-0 http://www.hifa.org/people/steering-group). jneana AT yahoo.co.uk