New #AI tool can predict #cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/19/ai-tool-predict-cancer-survival-patient-selfie "System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph" sounds like phrenology...
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@glynmoody remembering Elizabeth Holmes...
@glynmoody Correlation is not causation. They could probably predict your cancer survival to a reasonable probability from the type of car you drive. I don't drive a car so they would probably just ignore me.
@glynmoody umm ok so in order to have trained with enough data to correlate facial details with cancer patients and their conditions, the system must have had access to high-enough quality photos of cancer patients’ faces… which begs the question, how many faces did it train on, the heck did they get their hands on that, and was it legal?